There’s a lot of pressure put on wedding days and I don’t really know why. It’s a single day in what is hopefully a very long lifetime spent with another person. That being said, I hope my cousin and her new wife had the most perfect wedding day imaginable and I’m so glad I got […]
This week was a Gregory Alan Isakov song: Summer days were just a magazine, a magazineA magazineCutting grass for gasoline, for gasolineSo I can see ya soonFall swoonedLeft me drunk in a fieldDandelion wine for a yearAnd I packed up the dustOf all that I ownedHandkerchief hung from a poleI rolled out the day that […]
Sometimes I feel like a rubber band being stretched too tight. How do you find the time for all the things you want to do and all the things you need to do? And also get some sleep? I am continuing to eat this summer up and I’m not full yet, but I am a […]
4th of July weekend this year had an odd quiet hanging over it. Maybe it was the thunderstorms or the heat and the cold of the days that mixed together. Maybe it’s because I’m getting older that the weekend didn’t have the usual fierce joy that I remember from childhood. But the days were quiet. […]
How can I learn to love winter as much as summer? Why am I thinking about winter right NOW? Right now I should be thinking about graduation parties without having to wear COVID masks, hot walks down the dusty lake road after dark, fireflies. Right now I should be loving long summer drives without ice, […]
I did all of the things this weekend. I painted, I did yard work, I met a friend for coffee and went to a farmers market. I went rock climbing at the recently re-opened Cornell Climbing Center. I went hiking, once for Chief’s 10th birthday and again on my way home from climbing to knock […]
Summer in the Northeast is the best. Warm nights, warmer days, the whisper of trees, bluebird skies, humidity that makes you wonder “what winter nosebleeds?” Unfortunately summer only lasts about 2 months and it didn’t start this weekend for it’s unofficial kick off on Memorial Day. The weather reached a damp 55 at it’s best […]
It’s rained a lot lately and I didn’t take any pictures of that. What I did do (and take pictures of) is this: I worked on cleaning the rock wall sections I got months ago by driving to the Catskills in an ice storm and still haven’t installed. Good thing we risked our lives doing […]
Sometimes I do too much. Like this weekend which saw me spanning the Finger Lakes and Binghamton with a mix of things I needed to do and things I wanted to do. Sitting down to write this is the first time I’ve slowed down since Friday. Even our weekend hike felt like it was in […]
I grew up in Rochester, NY, where my Dad was born and raised. But the year I started college, my family moved to the middle of nowhere on top of a hill above the farm where my mom grew up. Going back to Rochester doesn’t feel like going home anymore, despite the 18 years that […]
