Hockey season has started once again and the puck drops here – right in our living room, night after night. Well, on the TV in our living room, not actually in our living room, though that did happen on at least one occasion. Years ago when the boys would have been around six, eight and [...]

Early this spring I walked past a house in town and noticed a lady out in her yard. She looked like she had stepped right off the glossy pages of an L.L. Bean catalogue. I slowed down and watched as she knelt on a floral knee pad, wielding a pair of stainless steel garden shears. [...]

The killing frost has done its final lick on the garden and the geese are forming crisp V’s in the sky. Another summer has come to an end. There are lots of things I will miss about our green season. Like grass. I love the way it looks, I love the way it smells, but [...]

So I’m sitting at my computer happily typing away when I turn my head from the screen just in time to see a mouse scurry out from under a book shelf. I do what I always do in these situations. I wrap my ankles around my neck and scream. This normally cues the mouse in [...]