Ocean

(Morning. Writing on the porch.) Yesterday I was taking out groceries at the checkout counter in Whole Foods. I lined...

As a kid, I wasn’t as fastidious and ‘tidy’ as I tend to be right now. But every once in a while, any disorder would get to...

1.      custom No, we do not max out at 100 degrees today, not that. It is, instead, 105 when we set out to bike to Paul’s ca...

Yeah, I like round numbers. Consider these: 100 days ago, the temperature outside, on the front porch, was 50. 100 hours fr...

96 today, 99 tomorrow and the next day. A weather pattern that’s stuck. I can’t look the truck farmers in the eye. Each day, I fee...

Warm again. I don’t even look outside to check on the day. Hot and dry. It’s the way it is each day. For us, it isn’t terrible...

It goes without saying that we make no effort to keep any of the grasses alive at the farmette in this period of hot, dry weather...

Much of what we talk about has to do with the kind of summer we’re having: a great one (all this time away from work). Awfu...

Since we’ve been back (one week!), Isis has been kind enough not to sleep in the farmhouse. Let’s just say I don’t encourage him...

1.      Thoughts An article in the NYTimes, written by a literary types, attempts to set forth the context for why people trav...