Sunday Morning Ritual

Here I am again, celebrating a slow Sunday morning with a little pot of silver needle white tea, browsing fabrics on the internet. My muscles are sore from a deeply satisfying day of gardening yesterday. Rain is watering the perennials I transplanted. The air smells woodsy from the bark Rob and I spread around our [...]

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Riding the Train

When I was about 7 years old, my mother brought me to Chicago from our post-war suburb of McHenry. What an adventure! Though my father rode the train every day to his job so that my mother had use of our family’s one car, this was my first train trip. I remember the gentle rolling [...]

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Cleaning Out My Empty Nest

This is the time of year when adult children ready themselves for college, and parents face the bitter/sweet fact that their fledglings are about to desert the nest. The truth is, my nest emptied last year as my last son headed out on his own. No parent can deny the sudden heady reality of evenings [...]

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