Recapture Childhood Raptures
Remember childhood, when the small things evoked excitement and the big things, elation? Dandelions for instance. Dandelions seemed almost magical to me, their ...
Category: Medley
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A Matter of Life and Death
There’s something about gentle nourishing rain in a graveyard on a summer day. Especially this lush hillside 19th century cemetery. Ancient hemlock trees, mos...
Pumpkin Bellied
At Battleview Orchard in NJ two weeks before our first was born. Thanks, Troy, for the pictures!
Odd Job
English Breakfast Tea in hand, I walk from the parlor of our 1890s house staff building, where my sewing colleagues sing English folk ballads in harmony, to the...
Union Square Park Farmers Market
>Amongst stone and steel, we approach a patch of green. A network of herb-topped tables across from mazes of “summer annuals.” Between the networks and mazes...
Midday Jamboree
>From my favorite bay window of my favorite coffee shop, I noticed a jamboree hoppin in the long shadow of Market Square’s church. Four motley men strummed, ...
Dog scares seagulls scare girl scares seagulls excites dog
Chris and I ran up and down a beach throwing the rugby ball back and forth. After tiring ourselves out, we collapsed on the sand and I took a semi-nap on his...
Zombies Perform Thriller in Market Square
>Every Halloween, a parade of wowingly costumed people marches through old downtown Portsmouth. Seriously, these costumes are ridiculous and meticulous! I ...
So my neighbor is a lobsterman.
>So last night, Iwas anticipating cooking chicken when the door bell rang. It was our lobsterman neighbor, Jeff, holding two live lobsters that he had caught...
Today, I saw 5 whales and 4 people throw up.
>I went whale watching in the Gulf of Maine with the youth group today! He maketh me chaperon fun youth trips;He leadeth me upon not-so-still waters.Yea, tho...
Food, Music and History
I got in from my long trip at 9pm. It was actually a little cold here in Maine. I had to to put on a cardigan and my pretty purple knee length light coat with a...
UNH BIKE TRAIL CHRONICLES
>We drove out to UNH so Chris could practice throwing the 16 lb. metal ball 180 ft like normal.Then, we decided to ride our bikes onto a pretty forest bike t...
Lobster Boats in Morning Mist
I decided to walk to the coffee shop this morning. I crossed the Memorial bridge at low tide. 8:15am. The white fog was still lingering over the water. I had ne...
Free Date
>Well Chris and I got a present last night. The musical Guys and Dolls was showing at the Ogunquit Playhouse (Ogunquit is a really cool beach town in Maine- ...
the yellow kayak
>We rented a sea kayak! How adventuresome we are. After church, it was a little rainy and foggy and cold but we threw on sweatshirts and took the kayak out a...
Watching fireworks over the sea from the boat
>Tonight Chris and I watched an orangypinkpomegranate sunset from the flight deck of his boat and then doubly enjoyed the Portsmouth fireworks display. I say...
Girl Wakes Up to Light House Horn Instead of Train Whistles
It is wierd. My family moved 9 times and I think 7 of those 9 homes where next to RR tracks. I can sleep through train whistles better than anyone I am quite su...
Merry Old Maine where it is 40 degrees cooler than it is in Texas.
>Yeah, I’m wearing a sweater. So right now I am sitting in a coffee shop called “Breaking New Grounds” in Market Square of downtown Portsmouth. oh wow, you w...
My favorite stained glass window ever
I was reading in a chapel of Michaelhouse in Cambridge, England and the sun was pouring perfectly directly through a big stained glass window with assorted craz...