attending school for 25 consecutive years? When it started, Andrew was beginning kindergarten and Olivia was beyond excited to begin her first year of preschool at three-and-a-half years old in Mrs. Debby Neubold’s classroom at Little Lamb’s Preschool. Sam was two-and-a-half and got to spend lots of time with me, carrying around his “pack-pack” pretending, …
Category Archives: Moments
Walk with me.
Every week, sometimes every day, I ask Keith: ”Would you like to go for a walk?” Most of the time he says, yes. In the last two years, as the pandemic has altered the rhythms in our lives, our walks have become a time to connect with each other outside the house, our work, and …
This week we chased sunsets.
Our days are busy, but not chaotic. Each season has a rhythm and when we relax into the pace the days seem to flow effortlessly from sunrise to sunset. February is a month when we meet for sunset walks and talks. 🤍❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️🤍🤍🤍❤️🤍🤍❤️🤍
Snow Graffiti
Walk with me? Wanna go for a walk? Up for a walk? How many times I’ve asked this question to Keith over the years. Or he will ask, ”What do you want to do today?” And typically I have a list of things I want to accomplish, including a walk. Yesterday I was up super …
Painting the Garage
I was twelve when we moved. We’d lived at 70 Colonial Avenue in Pitman, New Jersey since I was 6. We moved on August 8, 1977. The day before we left the house for good, my mother thought it would be fun and a good way to occupy us kids, if we painted the garage …
Bowls
My children are moving out in increments. As they move to college, college apartments and then on to their first real apartments and contemplate home ownership, they make requests for particular household items. My mother — Gigi — to my kids, is a genius at fulfilling their requests. Gigi lives in a small New England …
Sawbellies
June 1992 – Seneca Lake with Keith It was the middle of a star-filled night and we were lying tummies-down, on a dock, on Seneca Lake, peering into the depths to see the sawbellies. You and I were newly wed; six months into this adventure and I was pregnant. I could feel the 4-month old, tiny …
A Boost Up
At that time and place you could borrow books, puzzles and record albums from The Carnegie Library in Rockport, Massachusetts. On a bright July morning in the mid 70s my mother and I were returning books and a record album before walking the rest of the way to Front Beach for a day of swimming lessons …
Got Milk? An Early Morning Question.
“Three miles. Another early morning run. Get ‘er done.” This mantra beat in my head as I ran down the path. The morning was bejeweled: Mars, Jupiter and Venus beamed out of the early sky canvas. My footsteps kept time with my breathing; a quiet tune from my ipod played in my ears as my eyes peered …