Today was not knowing where to begin. It was weeding the asparagus patch and deciding it was OK to pull out a few of the daisies. Today was putting on my mask, getting the bread and the pretzel. It was homemade egg salad over greens from the garden. It was watching her eat that popsicle […]

I forgot to pray the first time I was here. I had meant to sit on the living room floor in front of the wood stove and ask the home to protect us and make us good and be good to us. I had meant to sit in the stillness and bigness and quiet and […]

I never feel like dealing with the trash on Wednesday evenings.  It is usually late when I remember and I am usually tired.  But I start.  I am the trash girl in our family. I gather the bins from around the house:  both bathrooms, the one in my office, the one in the waiting room. […]

I keep finding my Grandmother in this room.  Her small wrinkled hands turn the pages of the cookbook while I am making the mushroom pastries.  She hides behind the green and white checked apron and peeks out at me when I put it on.  Last night I could have sworn I saw her mending the […]