Recently I’ve been really interested in keeping track of my sleep, because I’m increasingly convinced of its impact on health and...

Today has been stuffed with blessings, large and small, and it’s only mid-afternoon. I’m grateful for a husband who orchestrated a...

All of life is a path with beginning, a middle and an end: a past, a present and a future. Most paths, especially the most interesting...

I finished planting our garden today, which feels like an accomplishment, but found real joy in two tiny moments that don’t look like...

I’m so appreciative of the nice things folks have said about my little “joy posts”—there is actually additive joy in just knowing that...

Last night I had an unusually vivid dream. It was a cloudy, windy day, and I was walking along the FDR Drive, in NY, with the East River...

n the pre-Covid era, Charlotte would do a happy dance whenever I put on a jacket or shoes, knowing there was a chance we were about to...

Just cut this one little bunch of lilacs to bring inside. They are so special—fragrant and fleeting. We have only one early-blooming...

The days feel so much longer here, compared to California, in a good way. Our northern latitude means the daylight lasts longer than it...

Ten-part bird symphony, woodpecker on percussion, Basketball bouncing on the driveway, Sea lions barking at each other, vying with their...

For the past several years, I’ve bought the Linnea Poster Calendar, with artwork by Johanna Riley, as a gift to myself—usually in the...

It was a wonderful feeling, walking into the kitchen where years and years of pumpkin carving, Happy Birthdays, math homework and...

I’ve always loved houses. Each has its own character and its own history. When was it built, and in what style? Who built it, and why?...

We woke up to the cancellation of our flight home on Thursday, and in the next beat launched into the work of leaving a day earlier than...

Probably countless thinker-writer types, even including some within my little FB circle of friends, have recently considered or...

I’m no expert in genetics, but I’m pretty sure I’m hardwired to be a morning person, courtesy of my Dad. Lately I’ve been sleeping in a...

Amelia and I have been planning for some time to get together with our sorely-missed friends, Stephanie and Bella, who have been...

In this new era, I find that time stretches out and then snaps back quickly, expanding and contracting in strange, sometimes jarring...

Oceans, rivers, lakes, sounds: I have always lived near the water, and have come to feel uncomfortable if forced away from it for too...

A dear college friend, Megan Willems, posted on Facebook today about her longtime connection to Earth Day, and about her realization that...