Living and writing in a circa 1840 New England Farmhouse with three generations of my family
Today my gratitude was waiting for me at my favorite place: home. This week marks 19 years since we moved into what was an abandoned old farmhouse. I don’t know where the years have gone. When we moved in, the house was a structure, but Read More
My gratitude came to me with a sound that I overheard today. I was working at my computer when I heard footsteps on the back staircase that leads into the farmhouse kitchen. I have always loved that sound. When my children were little, they felt Read More
My gratitude came home with me from the farmer’s market today. I left the house with my tote basket and the hope that there would be something delicious to inspire me at one of our local markets. I didn’t come home empty handed. In fact, Read More
Gratitude can be so easy to find in the garden even on a rainy day. First, I was thankful that I didn’t need to water the garden. That would have been enough to set my day off in a good direction. Beautiful flowers in bloom Read More
I found my gratitude in the weather today. I was downtown when the skies turned light, then medium, and finally a dark foreboding shade of grey. Rain started to fall and then it started to pour. I was caught in the rain with errands that Read More
My gratitude was waiting for me in the perennial garden this morning. It’s easy for me to find gratitude there. It’s a space that grows reasons for me to be thankful. I have been watching this particular hydrangea bloom open up. I have made an Read More
I found gratitude at dusk tonight. My family had been outside for a few hours and we lingered until this moment. The sky was just losing light, the colors of the sunset being overtaken by darkness. We listened as a pair of Barred Owls called Read More
I held a bit of gratitude in the palm of my hand today. And yes, you would think that as a person who makes baskets that I might carry one with me when I head out to the garden. You’d be wrong because I find Read More
I mixed up a bit of gratitude in the kitchen today. I love to work on recipes and make things for my family, so being in the kitchen doing both of those things makes me very happy. Today had started out as the sort of Read More
My gratitude was swaying in the breeze this morning. This zinnia was standing tall, several inches above the other zinnias in our garden. It was impossible not to stop and admire this gorgeous, colorful bloom. Just look at the shape of each piece, the colors Read More
I found myself feeling grateful for an unexpected discovery this afternoon. I was out in the garden, picking ripe tomatoes. That is enough to fill me with gratitude, especially when I help myself to a few cherry tomatoes still warm from the sun. Then I Read More
My gratitude was growing in the tomato patch today. I started my morning early, working my way through my morning farm chores. As I did, I found this Black Prince tomato ripening on the vine. As a gardener, there’s nothing that fills me with more Read More