Ocean

It’s the kind of day where the only cows I see are those suspended in a café on State Street – where I jumped out to get a cup for the long ...

Is it 450 chickens and 32 goats? Or 450 goats and 32 chickens? Oh, I don’t need notes for that. There are way more chickens than goats on th...

Sunday idleness. It’s never that, here at home. Clean house, look out wistfully, do work. I keep my lazy clothes on. I suppose that’s someth...

Sometimes I pity the farmers. Bad soil, lousy weather, Wisconsin bugs – it’s enough to make you reconsider. Our images of the whole field to...

Being born to a very political family (professionally and in their degree of expressiveness) inoculated me against an excessive verbal engag...

It was a good day. Up early, taught energetically, spoke passionately to a colleague on the matter of the RNC. Watched the rain outside. Wal...

September 3rd will always be one of those important launching days for me (oh, the things I have launched!) and so today I’m introducing you...

The hottest day. Like a school kid, I load up my brand new back pack (large, very large) with laptop, texts, papers and I hop on the bike. I...

Of all seasons, summer is the one most laden with sugar. And at the end, you’re left wondering if you got it all in, sucked up every last bi...

Saturday evening. A warm, beautiful time of day. I had spent time at the farmette and now I am heading home. Ed swings his Honda motor bike ...

During my high school years, my grandmother continued to live in the Polish village, an hour or two to the northeast of Warsaw, the same vil...

I bike to work just as the labor day week-end is about to roll in. For the past nine years, I spent labor day out east, helping daughters mo...

She was intensely engaged with the person on the other end. Sometimes she paced, sometimes she stood still, listening. I’ve had conversation...

A nap. A big snore, an exhale. I need one, you need one. I offer a serene photo from the fields bordering the farmette. I never post photos ...

As if to balance the recent urban presence in Ocean posts, this day is rural to the core. First: I went early to the farmette to check on t...

And the food. What of the food here? Oh, always exquisitely diverse. Yesterday we opted for a new Indian eatery -- Marigold. Yes, sure, ther...

I was going to give you a day’s respite from longer posts. I took this photo of a man on a break and thought – that’s it for today. But then...