Fall in love with being alive
I don’t know if it’s still hipster to love Farmer’s Markets… but I love Farmer’s Markets. I know it costs more money than going to the grocery store, but there’s something about handing real people money in exchange for things that belong to them is just… I don’t know. Liberating? It feels real and beautiful. […]
I have too many fresh vegetables. Really, I’m kind of stressing about it. It’s my own fault, there’s something about fresh vegetables in the summer that makes me snatch magpie like an anything green as if it were gold. Not only did I sign up for a CSA (Community-supported agriculture) crop share, I also ordered […]
I don’t know about you but I feel like the best nights of my life have been marked by campfires. There were the campfires of my childhood, on camping trips along a creek that fed the waterfalls and gorges of Stonybrook and Letchworth parks, with the brush so lit up with fireflies it looked like […]
There are only 4 things I am certain that my dog loves:– My husband– Ice cream– Ground beef– Walking in creeks He will however tolerate hiking with me, which is something I love. As Spring has been morphing into full-on summer we have been going for hikes in the woods above my cousin’s farm. It’s […]
My first job after college was at a winery on Keuka Lake called Dr. Konstantin Frank’s VInifera Wine Cellars. And I loved it. I loved it because of the warm summer days sitting on the winery deck at lunch time looking out towards the bluff and feeling the cool wind drafts that make this such […]
They say home is where the heart is. If that’s true my home is in the Finger Lakes. The Finger Lakes are a series of eleven long, stringy lakes carved out by glaciers 2 million years ago in the middle of what is now Upstate New York. The area is made up of nine counties […]
For mothers day I was supposed to take my mom for a socially distanced walk. But then it was 30 degrees and snowing. In May. For Mother’s Day. So we had a redo this weekend. It’s the first time I’ve seen my parents in a while because of Coronavirus and all that. We took advantage […]
I don’t know if you guys know this, but the original Star Wars trilogy are probably the greatest movies of all time. I also don’t know if you know that May 4th is the world’s unofficial Star Wars Day (because May the 4th be with you–get it??) This Star Wars day I had planned a […]
Today I want to talk about cemeteries. I love a good cemetery, especially an old one. This is one of my favorites and reminds me of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (if you haven’t read it, stop what you’re doing and read it now.) It’s getting tougher to get away from people outside these […]
Today it was cold and rainy. I don’t mean like a little drizzle. I mean RAINY. Like the dog just holds his bladder all day rather than get soaked while peeing. Like our garbage cans of sticks that we put out to the curb on Sunday nights are 10 pounds heavier with rain water. Like […]
