Dear friends, We’re transitioning into sweater and tea weather. Oh, happy day! It’s a great time for walking through fields of wildflower:) WordsIn word news, my friend Kate Racculia has a brand new book, Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts. This book, which has already received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publisher Weekly, is described by one reviewer as, …
Good day on this fine Spring Equinox. I hope this letter finds you packing away that winter coat and fortifying yourself in sunlight. Over the past months my husband and I have visited this empty grass field to look for hawks — they often fly here before dusk. In order to see the birds, we …
‘This too shall pass.’ Good moments and bad are temporary constructs. Autumn reminds me more than any season of the promise of change. In late August, over one weekend, I was hired to teach a geology class at Moravian College. I signed my contract on the following Monday and held class an hour later. I …
Dear friends, March was in like a lion this year and still roaring. I’m hoping we we’ll see much more of the lamb soon! In case you need photographic evidence of spring, this was taken just yesterday: Words When it warms up and you’re ready for a walk, local friends might want to take a …
Today is the official first day of autumn! The arc of the sun begins to shift toward the south and the birds and butterflies are already migrating. To mark the season, here are words from the venerable Mary Oliver: Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness Every year we have been witness to …
Day and night are equal in length. It’s a pivotal moment, that will tip the balance of light and dark. So even though it still looks like this outside in my part of Pennsylvania: Soon, very soon, there will be this: That heart-quickening feeling of a first warm spring day is captured here by one of my …