Bold Enough for Oranges

Clementines are Tasty. And Safe. Risk Averse  When I drove home from work the other night the woman in the car behind me committed an act of boldness as we made our way through the going-home traffic. She ate an orange. I watched in my rear-view mirror as she peeled it, balancing the orange against […]


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One Broken Shrub

 Echium Sitting on the Glider. To Take it Down a NotchWe planned to prune the Echium candicans this winter, as it had overtaken the cedar glider on our front deck. Come spring, the shrub would prevent us from gliding through the air of a soft evening awash with budding.But the grasshopper asked us to wait. And who […]


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Enough Already!

Barely. Barely is Enough. Brownies, Cocoa, and Sufficiency Lost in the brownie-baking ritual, I greased a pair of well-loved pans, fitted a paddle to my red Kitchenaid stand mixer, measured sugar into its bowl. As the butter and sugar whirled and spun to spectral creaminess, I reached for the cocoa box. Its near-weightlessness stunned me. […]


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But Wait! There’s More!

Cards. A Photo. A Hug. Even More Than I Imagined “You have cards in the mail,” Rich said, pointing to a telltale pastel envelope. Passing over a large catalog envelope, I opened the card with a smile, as I hadn’t been expecting any personal mail.  When my birthday had rolled around at January’s end, my […]


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While We Wait

Cadence and Me. July, 2011. Ready?  Our grandson comes early this morning to visit us. I’m waiting, waiting for his dad to drop him off. All I know is Friday morning.  [It’s complicated, our family pruned and grafted: Cadence lives in Hawaii with his mommy, Rob-Daddy, and little brother. His father lives, as we do, […]


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