Patience, Grasshopper

Green Grasshopper The Incredible Sweetness of Being, Part Three I’m up and away from my desk, waiting as my husband installs a bookcase that he’s renewed with care for my use. Wandering onto the front deck. I breathe deeply of the winter air, not-too-chilly in California. I glance at the spent tomato plants, their cages […]


A Connoisseur of Grace

Laundry.  Sundresses and Sweaters Autumn arrived in my town last week. I noticed when I did the laundry. How else could I explain the wardrobe shift? As I hung clean clothes on the rod that my awesome husband installed next to the dryer, I noticed my blue eyelet sundress hanging right between a pair of […]


A Connoisseur of Grace

Laundry.  Sundresses and Sweaters Autumn arrived in my town last week. I noticed when I did the laundry. How else could I explain the wardrobe shift? As I hung clean clothes on the rod that my awesome husband installed next to the dryer, I noticed my blue eyelet sundress hanging right between a pair of […]


A Connoisseur of Grace

Laundry.  Sundresses and Sweaters Autumn arrived in my town last week. I noticed when I did the laundry. How else could I explain the wardrobe shift? As I hung clean clothes on the rod that my awesome husband installed next to the dryer, I noticed my blue eyelet sundress hanging right between a pair of […]


Pride of Madeira and Pride of Pity

Echium candicans One Purple Flower and a Prideful Heart Camped out on the sofa with a green fleece throw, a few books, the remote to the television, and a box of tissue, I resigned myself to another day sidelined from my life by a cold. I’d been sick for nearly a week and I was […]