Cross your fingers for me…on several fronts

Yesterday, I was fortunate enough to be afforded the opportunity to pitch my children’s picture book manuscript to an agent. I was seized with nerves – as anyone would be – but perhaps wasn’t as frazzled as I could’ve been weren’t it for the fact that on Friday night my son came down with a…

Open letter to my husband on the subject of ipod borrowing

Dearest, I loaned you my ipod in good faith a little while ago. I saw you take it to the computer and tinker with the song selections. I know its embarrassing it’s only an ipod shuffle. Thus we only have 100 songs or so to choose to upload at any given time (although I remember…

What to do with a garden like this?

A giant silky oak which is regretably dying, and needs chopping down. Underneath all this natural mulch are stones which we laid, but the persistant weeds have grown through, as evidenced here… ……and here. I want to bobcat all the ground back to some sort of levelness (hard to do when you live on an…