November 2024

Last weekend we had a lovely visit with Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop. We had a fun time playing Kittens in the Blender, which is really a highly competitive match between Amy and Carl no matter how many other people are playing. We also watched the movie of Harold And the Purple Crayon, laughing uproariously. We never… Read more »

Virtually everything I did this past week was virtual. Well, that’s not quite true, but I did have many more zooms than usual. One was about connecting more with my community and how I might want to make that happen. My first goal is to get to know everyone who lives on my block. One… Read more »

Today we will begin with a story from long ago, back when Carl and I were a new couple. I was an English major and was reading The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne for one of my classes. Carl read a short summary that came with talking points. He sat down with me one day… Read more »

The weather this autumn has been unseasonably warm, which made it possible to carve pumpkins outside. Usually for Halloween itself people worry about how many layers they need to put under or over their costume, but this year the concern was about being too warm! It was 80 degrees. I was so sure that we… Read more »