Health, and supporting it for myself, my family, my community, and my dear ones The science that delivered us vaccines so quickly and effectively and promises anti-viral treatments imminently Sun and clouds Knowing, caring for, being cared for by friends and family — even, perhaps especially through the challenges of…

I tend to write a prelude or intro for summer wish list presentation. For nearly a year, every single day, I’ve been writing what I think of as Maps. These essays have chronicled, I guess, life through an extraordinary once-in-a-century (up till now, kind of, in this country, not counting…

Loving and being loved Noticing details Being alive Science, public health, front line workers, neighbors in the global sense staying home for one another’s safety January 20, 2021 Deeper work to repair longstanding ills and envision a world where we truly can lift one another up ** This is the…

I managed to sleep late this morning (nearly eight). I knew, as I slept and wasn’t awake, that I was restless. I needed to pee at one point — and shifted position to fall back to sleep without disruption. For whatever reason, I’m not getting up more nights than not…

Stupidly, as in, why don’t I think in numbers ever, I signed up to “Run for Ruth.” It’s virtual, of course. The site offered a 5K option. Early in the summer, I’d done a virtual 5K for Girls on the Run, with my tween, Saskia, biking alongside me. It was…

Things we did to improve the porch this summer: cleaned it up, had the floor repainted and the trim touched up and the walls power washed, obtained two matching tablecloths, hung fairy lights, got the outlet repaired. Voila! The front porch serves as a summer law office for will signings…

For the first summer in very, very many, I didn’t write a Summer Wish List. I began to do them back when I blogged, motivated by someone else’s list to make my own. I linked to hers, although I no longer remember which blogger’s list inspired me. The list, much like New Year’s Resolutions, worked differently in different years. Sometimes, it filled with links to things I did, places I loved, events that sounded very cool near to where I lived, like the potluck dinner across the Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls. I’ve never been to…

It’s cloudy. We haven’t had much cloudiness recently, lots of hot sun. All around town, there are new trees planted this spring lining the streets. These trees and others are parched. The trees have moved through all the yellow of spring into the deep, dark green that will hold until…

Quarantine: we have done nine full weeks, two full months, however many meals and cleanups and sweeps of the floor that makes. Shuttering…