Ocean

I suppose some could say that my constant reference to the farm (or 'farmette,' because it’s a small amount of land) is m...

With adult children, sometimes days and weeks pass and I can't really tell you where they are and what they're doing.  Othe...

We’ve been shaking beetles from the wild roses that grow so abundantly here at the farmette (well, they grow abundantly when there ...

(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...