I enjoyed my first pumpkin beer Sunday night that Jesse and I paired with paella stuffed acorn squash, and I don’t think it gets more Autumn than that. This means, of course, we are officially into my favorite season and besides all the joys of nightly fire pit fires, changing leaves, cozy scarves, and wearing my boots again, October is… View Post

  hello. WHY I GOT A DOG. by, Callie R. Feyen Because Hadley was going to get a miniature hamster, and aren’t they already small? Because once Harper heard about the miniature hamster, she wanted a pet, too. She decided on a rat. Because Harper learned that you can’t have one rat. You have to get two. Because one night… View Post

hello. If you are looking for advice on canoeing with your 13-year-old daughter, I have none. Come to think of it, I  have no advice on what there is to be done with a 13-year-old daughter, except that here we are, in the same boat, trying to navigate our way down river, or up river, without causing too much damage… View Post

hello. I think I might be breaking some kind of sisterhood code when I write that the movie “Wonder Woman” got on my nerves a little bit. (Fun fact: More people unsubscribed from my blog after I admitted that I did not like the book Little Women than any have ever unsubscribed in the 13 years I’ve been blogging. I wonder… View Post

Inspired by Jeanine Hathaway’s “ex-nun poems.” Read a few of them here.  The ex-teacher knows not to expect anything profound to happen the first day she swims laps. It is pouring down rain, and she is wearing a bathing suit so modest she’s not sure she isn’t wearing it backwards. She will not remember anything or find anything out about… View Post