At the grocery store, I stop first at the white peaches and the plums because they are on sale and fragrant, and because picking plums reminds me of going grocery shopping with my mom when it was summer and I was little girl. My brother and I sat in the cart and my mom would let us eat a slice… View Post
Around Here
All the six and unders at church hang out on a wooden bench at the back of the church and eat cake. They’re like a bunch of Norm’s, these kids. PS- I did not make the girls’ dresses. I KNOW they’re pillow dresses. I KNOW they are easily made. I KNOW that anyone with half a brain could sew them…. View Post
Reading Journals – All About Me Pages
I don’t want you to get the wrong idea and think I’m some sort of expert on how to get kids to read. I have no clue how to do that. I wasn’t what you’d call a reader growing up. Have I told you that? Well, that’s a story for another day. I have learned a little trick from a… View Post
A Note to Butler’s Orchard
This is just to say we have eaten a few blueberries from the hedge instead of dropping them into buckets to be weighed Forgive us we were young and feeling young and the blueberries were the size of grapes warm and dark blue from the sun (Inspired by “This is just to say” by William Carlos Williams, Butler’s Orchard, and… View Post
Sometimes I Get A Good Feeling
Remember when you woke up one morning around the 17th or 18th week of pregnancy and thought, “Coffee sounds good?” Remember how relieved you felt at the thought? You walked to Starbucks a few blocks away from your apartment; the one in downtown Silver Spring that’s across the street from what used to be Borders. Since it was your day… View Post
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