Have you ever had a day or a week when you just can’t quite get into the right rhythm of things? Well, it has been one of those weeks for me. Everything felt off-center until … I found a bird nest with little baby birds in one of my hanging flower baskets on the front porch. Like a morning fog lifting off the lake, my world became clear…
There is something very special about the people we refer to as our cousins … a topic that I can’t even begin to do justice to this vacation week, but I will, some day, I promise. Here’s to our cousins … …and the memories that the next generation has been making all week. Love to my own cousins … although I don’t see you very often, so many…
Do you have gremlins? I have gremlins. They drive me batty at times … lurking in the dark corners of my computer and email accounts. They wait to pounce, sabotaging the very glue that holds me together every day — like my emails. In particular sometimes my Morning Ag Clips! Say what?!?! So, this is a piece that I wanted to write to say there are ways to elude…
Did anyone notice on Tuesday there was a little mystery holiday marked on their Google Calendar called Juneteenth? A month ago 2 of my friends and I, decided to set our monthly lunch date on Juneteenth. We laughed at the thought of another holiday commemoration that we had no idea existed, and I wondered if maybe google made it up just to keep us engaged and active on…
Dear Teenager, It wasn’t too long ago that you were just a baby in our arms. How snuggly you were, how much energy you had as you grew and grew and grew. You challenged us, but you always took our advice or took our lead away from danger. Why won’t you now? We remember the day you came home as an elementary school student, stating adamantly that you would never…
This time of year, we spend a lot of time at lacrosse fields and baseball fields. When I am at the baseball field, I look around and think back to a particular baseball game. I wrote this piece many years ago, but I carry it in my heart like it was just yesterday … so sweet, I thought that I would share. If you have children, I know…
May and June have hit like a tornado, and it has gotten out-of-control busy in a hurry. All the demands of the school year ending, the culmination of spring sports, a yard that is growing right before my very eyes, and a workload that keeps on coming (which is good) is all very much in the here and now. It’s easy to forget what truly matters because you…
Last week I attended the New York State FFA Convention … we will start with that. On Wednesday, before I left, I picked up 175 chocolate chip cookies from my most favorite spot in Greenwich, The Village Cafe — if you are ever in town, that’s the place to go! It seems to be where the most pertinent of business occurs in town; trials, tribulations, celebrations, graduations…
We all come from a different place where this topic is concerned because we all have had our own experiences. What I want to do is bring light to a difficult topic and show how a different perspective, the actions that you choose to take, and the course that you follow in your life all combine to help pave the way and make things better for all who…
My children woke up horrified this morning, as they stared out at the front right tire of my car—no hubcap. When I walked into the house after my walk with the dog, they announced that we had a problem. In the 15 minutes while I was gone, Jacob had priced a new hubcap out, $60, and Tyler was dressed and headed out the door to check on the…
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