A couple cool things about this place: First, there is always a fountain within earshot, and second, right outside our door, six big rope...

I started this beautiful book about nine months ago—the bookmark I’m using is actually the ticket that was clipped to our cluster of...

Special gifts: Our family of five together, getting to celebrate with dear friends/quarantine buddies, zoom hangout with our NC crew,...

One of the sweetest days of our time here—it feels good to be together and do the fun things we would normally do, and it feels good to...

Nothing fancy, just the satisfaction of lacing up a great pair of new shoes made for tromping along in the almost-mud, and walking in the...

Here are a few of the things I need right now: familiar faces/voices, a little bit of a schedule, exercise, and directed opportunities to...

This time of year on Bainbridge, I have fresh flowers in the house all the time. Usually they’re cut from our garden, which begins it’s...

Not in any way what we imagined spring break to be, but this day had its own beauty. It smelled like rain and looked like Hawaii outside,...

I wouldn’t say I’m a very patriotic person but I do, almost without exception, root for the underdog. And the story of our country really...

I remember now why this route was so great for distance training: it’s a there and back, but the back is a gradual hill for miles. And...

For me, food is love. Since I relinquished most of my cooking duties a while ago, when Stephen caught the Sunbasket bug, I consider most...

When we came to where we are currently sheltering, we came quickly, and packed up not knowing how long we’d be away from Bainbridge. We...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IFIH9kmUd-k&feature=youtu.be [video credit: Jason Hackett, dear friend and lifelong New Yorker] We hear a...

When the color of the sky is so electric that it looks like a paper cut-out collage against the Santa Rosa mountains, it takes my breath...

Wherever we are, music is there too. I say it all the time: everything is better with music. It can be a tune I wake up with and hum...

I think, talk and write a lot about the practice of finding the joy—in the good days, in the not-as-good days, in my life generally. A...

Running has saved me so many times in so many ways that it’s pointless to try to quantify its impact on my life. Some days, running...