Happy Christmas to all! It’s a beautiful sunny day here. We had a lovely Christmas morning with Mum and Dad, Hils, Hannah, and Terence, and the four of us opening packages. The children were delighted. Now Grace is playing with her new toys, Whit and Matt are sleeping, and I’m about to go for a [...]
That’s the moon through my office window at 5:30 this morning. Had the most horrific insomnia last night. I got about 3 hours of sleep and am swimming underwater through my day as a result. It’s not the happiest Christmas Eve inside the black hole of my head. I hope it’s better for the rest [...]
Just wanted to post this fantabuloso picture of Hils, T, and the delicious Miss Hannah. So excited that they are here for Christmas and to spend some time together over the next few days. Email this post
It is said that the dominant influences on F Scott Fitzgerald were: “aspiration, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and alcohol.” Email this post
Snowy view out my window on this solstice day. I think it’s going to be a white Christmas, which is always fun. Tonight we’ll celebrate, with the Vogts and the 30+ year tradition. The Woods will be with us which it really special. And this weekend I’ll get to see Hadley and John and their [...]
Toward the Solstice, 1977 The thirtieth of November.Snow is starting to fall.A peculiar silence is spreadingOver the fields, the maple grove.It is the thirtieth of May,Rain pours on ancient bushes, runsDown the youngest blade of grass.I am trying to hold in one steady glanceAll the parts of my life.A spring torrent racesOn this old slanting [...]
Snowed in today. This is for real: snowing sideways this morning, now sleeting hard and cold. I have been puttering around the house most of the morning, doing laundry, reading, cooking. I made nut brittle, spiced pecans, and chocolate cherry cookies (really more like little bundles of yumminess, not really cookies). It is a no-holds-barred [...]
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. – Woodrow Wilson The need of man to [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we spend our time. Our time, which is, after all, the only really valuable currency we have. Our hours are our life, right? It’s both how I allocate those hours and how I feel when I’m in them. Certainly the adult I spend the most time with [...]
Silent Night. This morning was the school holiday sing-a-long. We also woke up to a foot of snow. I had a major, dramatic, slow-motion wipeout en route to school and arrived snowy and late. But it was lovely. All the Beginners had paper snowflakes on their heads and to my pleasant surprise we sang songs [...]
