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How can a morning just disappear? Easy: clean the farmhouse. Two hours for that, even with Ed helping. Then: computer work. Including r...

We wake up to a warm day. A very warm day. Actually, it's going to be hot. Breakfast? I ask. I'm always excited about breakfast....

It was such a full day. And I knew it would be: meetings, appointments, more meetings. Reading. Tons of reading. Weekly grocery shopping. ...

Take a break. Go ahead and take one, be it from work, from cooking, from sitting home every evening -- oh, ooops! those exactly describe me...

Just shy of six in the morning, there is some movement in the farmhouse. Isis wants out, I want to be left alone, Ed tracks the both of us ...

Everything changes on the first day of the academic year. Breakfast. Faster, slicker, earlier. Though for us, still on the porch. And tod...

So many of these national holidays pass by with out much thought as to why we observe them in the first place. Labor Day: a day off from wo...

I was 52 when Ed and I began to spend our days in each other's company. He was a fresh 55. We were already formed. In younger years...

I think of days like this as one picture days: the entirety can be summarized in one shot, one sentence, one thought. At least at the level...