As a child, I lived next door to an elderly couple who spent their golden years cultivating gorgeous roses, raising…
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Mystery
Ten years ago, my birthday. I am visiting a friend in New Hampshire. It is unseasonably cold for early October;…
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Unimaginable
We sat around the kitchen table after dinner last night — my son Henry, my husband Steve, and two of…
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Halloween memories
It’s a pretty remarkable Halloween – two feet of snow are piled up outside the window, and the pumpkins are…
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Playing hooky
There is always something else that needs doing. But there are never enough days like yesterday, days when the trees…
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Running
All through August I’ve been out the door each day at 6:15, to run two and a half miles to…
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