WHERE WE PUT DOWN ROOTS
Putting down roots. Keeping what matters.
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Clear filters ×Christmas · Dad
Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago. —Tom Baker This year our tree is a magnificent 12-foot, 6-inch Douglas Fir with near perfect shape. Fifteen-foot ceilings in our living room…
5 min read Read Oh Christmas Tree. How Lovely!family · flowers
Just remember, in the winter, far beneath the bitter snows, lies a seed that with the sun’s love, in the spring, becomes the rose. —Bette Midler I was interviewing my colleague Rose for a newsletter story about her newly found passion for gardening.…
5 min read Read In The Gardencoronapandemic · covid19
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.— Maya Angelou Miles and Mommy “at work.” Enforced stay-at-home because of the corona virus is not how I imagined it would…
5 min read Read Home in the time of COVID.brothers · celebrations
“Time makes us bolder, children get older. I’m getting older too.”—Stevie Nicks We recently spent a glorious weekend with our sons attending the wedding of their childhood friend Katherine in beautiful Ithaca, NY. Our boys first met Katherine in middle school and…
7 min read Read Landslide Weddingthewritinglife · daughters
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.—Robert Brault Spring and summer in Baltimore are glorious. Of course the return to warmer weather is always welcome in any town. But…
3 min read Read Cut the roses, use the china.celebrations · family
“Use it up, wear it out, make do.”—New England proverb I’m sitting as usual enjoying my second cup of coffee as I began thinking about our dining room table. It’s not elegant or trendy. The top is scratched and the legs could use…
4 min read Read This Old Tablecareer · Courage
“Coda: a concluding segment of a piece of music, a dance, or a statement. It’s usually short and adds a final embellishment beyond a natural ending point.”—Vocabulary.com Here I am, on the precipice once again. Corporate job—over. Writing life—ready to resume. I’ve…
4 min read Read Codabrothers · celebrations
“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”—Julia Childs Lana Lee Jones D’Agostino, July 18, 1955 – April 25, 2018 Friday, April 27, 2018. Lana, you’re missing the conversation about your life that’s happening as we listen to your…
3 min read Read Farewell to my Kitchen Sisterbirthdays · Christmas
Life doesn’t come with a manual. It comes with a mother. You would have turned 90 today. December 15 is the fine day you arrived, aptly named Joyce to herald in the joy of the Christmas season. I think of you every…
4 min read Read The Cookie Maker
