Well, that didn’t last long. Evie enjoys school but… she now has a mortal enemy. There is a kid she hates more than anything else she has ever hated (she’s only ever ‘hated’ some veggies and a bee that stung her “for no reason”). Great. Awesome. Time to start mentorship in the valuable art of…
“I get how people get stuck in a place,” Scott said to me. I laughed. Me too – I get it. Most people don’t consider having roots in a place ‘stuck’. Having ties and feeling safe are generally considered good things… a desirable side effect of participating in community and family life. Believe it or…
I like to try to make connections between what’s going on and what we’re feeling. If I had to make a best guess, I’d say our last year was all about strangling every last second of fun out of every single day. (We did.) We thought we only had a year. June was all about…
Scott and I are 2 of the luckiest people alive. Seriously. Both of us, through luck and willpower, know what it feels like to have a deep passion about something we’ve worked on. Work was my first love. I named my job Charlie and he and I have been inseparable. Even on bad days, things…
What do you do in Maine just before the 4th of July? Go strawberry picking. After having been in California, I get that this may not seem as exciting to our west coast brothers and sisters. Out there fruit seems to be perpetually available – ripe and delicious (although… like everything else in California… not…
