I must confess that I am in an adrenaline-raddled state, two weeks into my term. Every job has its challenges. At a primarily teaching-focused institution, the startling change of rhythm at the beginning of the…
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I can’t believe it’s been almost two weeks since I promised to reveal the bride soon, but then I can’t quite believe I’m finding time to post considering the full-treadmill-mode I’m in at work. So…
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A bit of foreshadowing — red hiding among the green foliage on the Scarlet Runner climbing the teepee frame in our back garden. On the back deck, a row of tomato plants looking discouragingly, unremittingly,…
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Caesar Boetius van Everdingen’s Girl in a Wide Hat (oil on canvas, c. 1645-1650) symbolizes summer as convincingly as does the painting of lady Winter by the same artist, hung on an adjoining wall in…
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Whoops! Someone, quick, tell Kristin to cover her eyes . . . . She had a recent misadventure of the paddling sort, and the trauma is too recent for her to see this post. The…
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