Long and Lovely To Dos

Finish the garden beds with their rough-cut cedar sides and poplar posts. Guard that garden with fencing. Build a chicken coop with a gate that will allow the guineas to travel over and eat potato bugs. Spread mulch on the magnolias and arborvitae. Build a cabinet...

Getting Beyond Myself – The American Cancer Society

Sometimes, my life can feel very isolating – alone most days in my house, no colleagues – only cats and the super pup.  Some days, I never leave the house, never see another human being.  Most days I really enjoy that. But this aloneness, this inward focus...

Barns, Writers, and Why Building Isn't Always Better

Tucked back on Witmer Road in Smoketown, PA, there is an l-shaped barn. It’s base is the yellow-brown stone that is the bedrock of Pennsylvania structures, and it’s board siding is white, slatted from top to bottom. Intact.  The structure is massive and...

Road Trip Weekend

Today, P, Dad, and I are taking a trip up north.  We’re visiting my grandparents and closing on their house . . . then taking a little mini-vacation.  Wish us luck, we’re taking the Super Pup Meander along . . . This could be interesting.   Road trip . . ....