We bought the house I grew up in, which means I have been feeling safer at this home since 1971. It juts out a little into the street so you can see the porch light from a good distance as you make your way south toward it. I have always liked that view, especially as [...]
Buddha sat on the north side of College Avenue and noted my hometown's admirable response to the four noble truths. The truth of suffering (gross winter weather) is that it comes in many forms -- ice, snow, wind, sleet, arctic temperatures. The root of suffering is desire (for warmer, sunnier days). The cessation of suffering [...]
Perspective rolls in slowly, like a vacation storm, and you have to decide whether to sulk in the shadows or swim in the rain. Are you a glass half full, or glass half empty kind of person? I thought about this yesterday as I hung out in Florida with my mother to celebrate her birthday. [...]
I spent the morning of my 51st birthday wearing camouflage and hunkered down on the edge of a cornfield. Holding my heavy camera still, eyes trained on the distant stalks, I tried very hard not to laugh at the shrill screech of my husband's turkey call. From the top of my messy hair, stuffed carelessly [...]
The air crackled with irritability this week as the icy claw of winter continued to clench its bony hand around Wisconsin. We celebrated the end of the meteorlogical winter with record-setting cold; the -24 degree air temperature on Monday marked our 51st day of below zero weather. Bloated snow mounds higher than my poor little [...]