Love Nest
*** David and Darlene Dove blew into town last week on a wing and a prayer. Short on funds and pressed for time, they were experiencing a housing crisis, and having just discovered that Darlene was...
View ArticleOh, how I love answers…
*** Second item on my list after getting out of bed this morning was to check on the Dove family, and I had a prescient little sense that something would be different this time. My first look at the...
View ArticleOh thou melancholy well-meaning fall…
*** On a pristine September morn like this, anything begins to seem possible. It’s a sweet 66°, the sky is blue and cloudless, and Farmers Market is in full swing down the block. Our parking lot is...
View ArticleSweet, sweet autumn…
*** It’s the weekend again, with another Farmers Market underway by the time I woke up, bringing hearty breakfast aromas to my balcony. The “fallness” in the air made it all even better than usual so...
View ArticlePost-feast check-in…
*** How was your Thanksgiving, or is it still ongoing? Was there pumpkin pie for breakfast this morning? It was a sweet time here, just Kim, me, and Rita, all the good food you could want, and a deep...
View ArticleIs this the bleak mid-winter?
*** We’re in mid-winter thaw here, false spring, whatever description fits. It’s a gray rainy morning in the 50s, all our snow gone, a few people actually walking around in shirtsleeves. We’ll no...
View ArticleEverything’s coming up sunflowers…
*** Favorite kind of Saturday. Soft, quiet… rain showers moving through. Muted conversations below us as people go back and forth to Farmers Market all morning. We sat on the balcony with our coffee...
View ArticleFall fell and handed it back to summer…
*** It’s officially fall and the weather has been changing for a while now, by which I mean every day into something different from the day before. Apparently we’ve just emerged from a season called...
View ArticleFirst you cry…
*** Here we are, kids, facing trauma of a sort that hasn’t been seen within our shores until now. It’s a heavy thing, watching night close in, knowing our way of life is more than likely ending in...
View ArticlePardon my dust…
*** From the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader: Opinion | Pardon our devastation. Millions of you put a criminal in the White House. Pardon our devastation. More than 75 million of our fellow citizens put...
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