"Our lives are made in these small hours These little wonders, these twists and turns of fate Tim falls away but these small hours These small hours still remain." -ROB THOMAS Dear Whitney, Tom, and Hadley--- February vacation is over, and with a bit of sadness, we will enter back into our routines this morning.  I want to remember this week,…

  "Unknown outpaces known like to do outpaces done.  These acres are a world.  What answers has the ground offered?  Only the notion that there are answers.  Underlying soil is bedrock, and if you dig deep enough, you'll hit it.  That's the closest I've come to surety, and it is enough for me." -Kristin Kimball, THE DIRTY…

It's a wet and dreary day in Vermont, and after several great days of skiing, we are inside today.  It's been a terrific week enjoying family time.  Everyone is resting or reading, and I find myself on Pinterest, like a junk food addict who just can't put down the chips. Have you discovered Pinterest yet?  Not…

Happy Saturday! I'm totally engrossed in a great book called THE DIRTY LIFE, a memoir by Kristin Kimball.  Kimball is a Harvard graduate, who worked for years as a freelance writer in NYC before falling in love with a farmer.  She gives up a rent-controlled apartment to move to the Lake Champlain area, where she and…

Tonight I am going to a college friends' 40th birthday party and I can't wait!  I've got my outfit all laid out in my mind, complete with a new pair of Spanx that I may have to jump off of the roof to get into.  Vanity can be painful, but it will be well worth…

When I think about the last nine years and what will come next, it feels like the tides changing at Crane's beach.  One minute the water is right there, so close, touching your toes, dancing and swirling before receding back.  You scramble to save the sand toys from going out to sea and quickly haul…