Musing, muttering and meandering through the pandemic

For several fun-filled summers before marriage and children and home ownership and all of the other responsibilities of adulthood, I play...

This may be the first summer in 15 years that we haven't suited up one of the boys for baseball. Josh is the only one playing baseball at...

I told a story a few weeks ago about our old handyman, Scott Ayres. We were lucky enough to know Scott for almost 15 years until he died ...

Why is it that I make a typo in every single post I write? Every day I put the finishing touches on my post then hit publish, only to rea...

A powerful little rainstorm just passed directly over us. These tropical outbursts are so exciting. One minute we are sitting on the scre...

Our kitchen faucet is leaking. I realized it the other night as I was washing some dishes and my feet were getting wet. I looked for the ...

It was fun to be part of the solution rather than the problem today while helping out at our local town elections. There were only a coup...

Tuesday morning is a bit of a blur. After I got an OK to move to my friend's house on the Cape, we immediately started packing. My brothe...

I’m home, but it was so great to spend a few days with my parents this week. We didn’t do much, but we covered a lot of ground. I hardly ...

She's an Animal! Hans and I got up early on Monday since we had barely slept anyway the night before. The carriage house was imposingly h...

It was after dark by the time we pulled into the driveway of the rental house. It seemed a little smaller than I imagined, and I didn't s...

An unanticipated benefit of visiting my parents is that I actually feel tall here. Gravity is winning the battle against my mother, and s...

My parents spoil me rotten when I visit. I wake up to coffee ready and breakfast on the stove. My mom constantly offers snacks and cold d...

After weeks of deliberating (with myself), I finally decided to go stay with my parents for a few days. At first I was nervous for them.....

I just can't get used to the quiet. Normally Monday is such a busy day. My schedule has always been carefully crafted so that I can squee...

Happy Fathers' Day to all you amazing dads out there. I'm blessed to be able to spend the day with Hans, even if his idea of fun for toda...

On most days I jump out of bed, raring to check items off my to-do list—well, "jump" may be a tad strong. My new pandemic routine is to m...

If you are making the attempt to follow this blog outside of Facebook, I am moved and humbled. I decided to move my daily ramblings off o...

The silver is polished, the table is set and the staff is ready to serve you at this year’s 7th Grade production of Disney’s Beauty and t...

In October 1998, Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and left to die tied to a fence outside of Laramie, WY, the victim of a horrific ant...