Summer Vacation
I’m hanging up a Gone Fishin’ sign for August to enjoy summer with my family and do some good old fashioned novel-writing. Enjoy the rest of your summer and I’ll see you in September! Here are a few...
View ArticleLoveletter to NYC (and to Montana)
As a Chicago girl, I know I’m not supposed to say this…but I love New York City. I’ve been there ten times in two years, and this time it was for fun. Everything about it was fun. I met amazingly …...
View ArticleA Mind of Winter…
I miss the deciduous trees. The winter sculptures that remind us of our bare bones. Like metal fingers in the sky that warn against the cold. Stay quiet. Stay inside by the fire. It’s time to rest....
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If you sit long enough and watch…you’ll see things. Last night I saw the moon climbing trees. And for just a moment…it got stuck.
View ArticleRoad-tripping it this Summer?
Country Living magazine has a great article about insider things to do across the United States. They asked their favorite bloggers in each state to give them a local pick. I chose Chico Hot Springs...
View ArticleOh Holy Night
Featured on Rita Wilson’s Huffington Post 50… Every year at this time I meet the holidays with an Andy Rooney attack that comes on a lot like gout. It begins with the first Kay Jewelers ad. And expands...
View ArticleWinter Mind
Here is one of my favorite poems on this austere day. Love to all… One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long …...
View ArticleFilling Station
As seen on Huffington Post 50 When I was little, one of the things I most loved to do with my father was go to the gas station. A child of the early 1900s, he called it the “filling station” …...
View ArticleFeed Your Muse
I just had that attack: Summer is almost here. What am I going to do with my kids? And then I remembered I live in one of the most beautiful places on earth. A place where people come from all …...
View ArticleNo Black Friday
Now Booking for February Haven Retreat! I like to re-visit this post every year on this day: I grew up in a suburb of Chicago with a central square flanked by shoulder-to-shoulder shops in brick and...
View ArticleRoll Call– What’s in a Name
I lost light watching the last of the bug hatches, and the fish rising and the clouds going crimson, breathing shallow little strikes at feeling okay about the last of my motherhood. No more would my...
View ArticleSummer Mother
Follow me on Facebook for more news, community, and inspiration! I wrote this 20 years ago one summer evening, after a day of hiking in the mountains of Montana with my brand new baby. It’s all about...
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