I missed lilac season this year, a realization that stopped me dead in my tracks as I rounded the northeast corner of my garage, fresh rhubarb from my neighbor Linda's garden in hand. I stopped to smell my lilacs, as I do every year, and I realized they just weren't there. "Wait," I said to [...]
I’m learning to love in November what I love and admire in most people I know. Stripped of October’s candy corn color and uncorrupted by December’s frantic glitz, November offers only this: gratitude. And that’s a lot. November is the friend you walk with on mornings so cold your eyes water and your nose runs [...]
Winter met spring this week, and we all held our breaths hoping for a swipe right or at least a long pleasant stint in the friend zone. We're not disloyal to the season at hand, we just think it feels good every now and then to still feel our faces when we stick them toward [...]
"Well,I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person." --Sylvia Plath Some snowfalls land gently, like a lace tablecloth on an old, scared dining room table. That's how Sunday morning's snow seemed to me. It approached without fanfare before dawn, tidied up the [...]
The sun came up the morning after the Brewer season ended and, because we live in Wisconsin, it (intermittently) lit up a gorgeous amber and lemon yellow skyline. Life is still good here and we are still grateful. We enjoyed our little four-season run, when the Brewers, Packers and Bucks seasons intersected with fall. But [...]