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This beautiful water lily pond, complete with beaver lodges, is close to the town of Stonington, Maine.
Here are photos from my morning walk in Stonington, Maine. This is a working town of lobster fisherman, and I am staying in a beautiful home overlooking the harbor. (My gracious hostess is in the bottom photo: thank you, thank you!) The mental breathing space I feel here is quite indulgent; I am very grateful … Read more
Yesterday, I dropped off our younger daughter for the two week “Islands through Time” program at the College of the Atlantic’s Summer Field Institute. For two weeks, she’ll join 14 other kids with five professors in an intensive course that will give her 3.3 hours of college credit. She is considering this school as a … Read more
This morning, on the way to take our youngest daughter to her program in Maine, we stopped by to get our favorite bakery donuts. These delicacies from the Colonel’s Bakery on Main Street in Northeast Harbor, Maine, are worth going out of your way for! When we’ve come in the fall there are wonderful pumpkin … Read more
Our youngest daughter is off to an exciting opportunity in Maine outside of Acadia National Park, and I’m driving her there today. Two weeks from now I’m scheduled to drive her home. I had no intention to stay in Maine during the interim, and was planning to come home to work. However, it appears God … Read more
I’ll Never Get Away I’m about to go on vacation but I’ll never get away My job surrounds me everywhere I’ll always be a praying person, always be a mother always be a lover of the world. I work and watch and trust and hope So even though I may finally get to see new … Read more
It’s pretty embarrassing, but I’ve spent 21 years in my authentic retro kitchen with an ugly fan over my stove that I haven’t used in decades, and most of those years the fan has been covered with duck tape because it is incredibly drafty in the winter. A year ago, I finally had a wonderful … Read more
“She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go. She let go of the fear. She let go of the judgments. She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head. She let go of the committee of indecision within her. She let go of all the ‘right’ reasons. Wholly … Read more
Recently, I shared photos from my walk around my neighborhood that I’ve done for years. I like that walk for obvious reasons – it’s lovely and a loop right out of my front door, complete with gardens close up. But it makes a more leisurely ramble than exercise, partly due to it’s flatness, but also … Read more
Last week my town overwhelmingly voted NOT to sell our water to the multinational corporation Aquarion who owns almost all of Connecticut’s water
Each year, New Pond Farm puts on a wonderful Shakespeare play after a three week camp for middle schoolers and early high schoolers. We enjoy this occasion especially because we usually know a bunch of homeschoolers who are in it
I am a regular contributor to the Danbury News Times Forum on Faith column, which is also picked up by the Connecticut Post and the Stamford Advocate.
I have read some horror stories about tilapia from China being fed feces (and then antibiotics); there are no food regulations in China, and over 70% of the water is toxic, so any food from there is suspect.
I loved this book and give it five stars. It was a delight to read – pure fun: inventive, imaginative, contemporary and totally refreshing.
We took our friend Anne (who is also a reader of this blog) to Ferris Acres Creamery in Newtown yesterday evening for their phenomenal ice cream – you can see how popular the place is by the colossal line (yes, far off the right of the photo below) – and in addition to great ice … Read more
