Don’t you treasure time with your loved ones? For a few days, it’s just my son, Samsun, and me. His wife Amanda is at Bread Loaf, enjoying the fellowship of other talented writers. Nothing going on, here at the lake.…

Hunter and Lynn and Artemis left this morning. Which means the 4 year old is no longer here, keeping the tempo UP! And distracting me full time from thinking about anything more important than being 4. Amanda is away. It’s…

WHEN, tell me when it ‘s not a good time to play??? Is there such a time???? I don’t think so. No. Absolutely not. If it’s not robots, it’s jump rope. Or chess. Or playing on the dock, in the…

As I jump in the lake, I hear thunder. I look over towards the mountains and I see the grey clouds heading my way and the way they mist the trees under them with the falling rain. And I feel…

. If you figure this out. If you understand. If you wait long enough… How to get where you’re going? You go to school to learn. You stand in line. Because you’ve stood in line before, you know who’s smart/makes…

I had no idea so many people would be excited to see or meet my mother! I’m on an airplane flying over the Pacific, headed to New Zealand and one after another, people come by to say Hi, Jane! Or,…

Do you ever feel like the pressure is ON? On you! Catch the ball. CATCH IT! I was out kayaking this morning with Peaches. Yes. Dear Peaches, getting wet as I dip the paddle on one side and then the…

Wh-a-a-a-at? Rain? Don’t you want sun ALL the time? All summer at Squam. Easy beautiful days. And in my life, easily doing whatever. Whatever I set out to do. No challenges. No bad weather. I want summer to be ongoing…

Do you have times when it seems like something is lost/gone forever? My daughter, Hunter, recommended a book to me: The Last Fire Season, by Manjula Martin, a month or so ago. I didn’t start it and didn’t start it…

This is Peaches. Riding the waters. Riding the “whelm”. Whelm? There doesn’t seem to be any rolling wave action here, does there? But, in some sense, do you feel as if we’re all riding a forward momentum together? We don’t…