It is Better to Speak Remembering

It is Better to Speak Remembering

by | Jun 26, 2019 | Family, Reading

Recently the poet David J. Bauman shared some lines from Audre Lourde. My eyes are still wet while processing her words about listening and speaking and all the nuance in between. We had a spirited dinner discussion last night about the power of listening and when to...

Anna Pavord, Pulling Weeds

by | Jun 2, 2013 | Garden, Reading, Spring, Summer

I scored Anna Pavord’s The Curious Gardener at a book sale last week. It was a brand new copy until I got my hands on it. Now it has some dirty fingerprints, and I’ve read all essays about spring and summer months. Come September I will dive back in for...

Eat Sleep Read

by | Feb 28, 2013 | Reading, Travel, Winter

  This is my idea of a good time.When I’m not hanging from the chandeliers or mucking out a henhouse I do like to eat, sleep and read. It is also the playful slogan of independent bookstore organization indiebound. I’ve seen this banner in several of...

The New Day, According to Ralph

by | Oct 2, 2012 | Reading

  “Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson I came across this little wise nugget via my childhood Kristen this morning. Sometimes the right words just drop in...