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wake up and remember: a repost

wake up and remember: a repost

{Repost: Originally published July 2017} I've been spending a little bit of this week recounting my failures as a mother. Well, "failures" is a big...
addicts and simpletons

addicts and simpletons

I love to joke that the brain is lazy.  It’s not actually lazy, per se--although you could make a convincing argument for that hypothesis.  No, th...
the dragonflies tell me so

the dragonflies tell me so

There is a swarm of dragonflies outside my classroom window that I find delightful to watch around lunchtime.  A cluster, I should say.  In 2nd gra...
the try hards

the try hards

One of my favorite all time things, that arrows straight to the deepest recesses of my heart is people trying hard to do something new, to understa...
altogether lovely

altogether lovely

I'm having such an interesting psychological relationship with this trip. I never meet the East, the coast, Providence, Massachusetts, without a si...
gone this morning

gone this morning

I was supposed to be gone this morning.I was supposed to be gone this morning, but I would have missed such a marvelous Father's Day with the Fords...
fuel for the summer

fuel for the summer

I have this memory.  And it's sort of a far flung memory. One I have likely been given more access to recently because of two things.  One, a s...
the market menu: a debut

the market menu: a debut

What is the Market Menu? The Market Menu is a new collection listed across the top banner of the Winter House website.  An item can be found o...
a place to belong

a place to belong

One of the most magnificent things about Maggie's Lou Fusz lacrosse experience has been that it exists outside of her school experience. And her sc...
an invincible summer

an invincible summer

This was once a little lettuce seed that has survived the winter. It was plugged into the ground without a whole lot of care last fall and left to ...
almost heaven

almost heaven

This is such a banal thing to write an entire blog post about, but I have such a love/less-than-love relationship with the state of West Virginia. ...
dead average

dead average

On the back patio...Me: Your official grades for the year have arrived!Maggie: Uh.oh.Me: They're good!Maggie: Can you read them? {she's painting he...