Oh, home video. People always say it’s wonderful, it’s wonderful to have everything: the cities you saw, the wedding, the first steps, the faces and talk of people we love, gone, still waiting there on tape. When Josie was born there was some pressure to take video. But we didn’t want video. I find no [...]
Posted in breakfast & brunch, family, Josie, vacation on Oct 24th, 2009
I will not miss summer, not frizzy hair and heat for one minute – but every leaf fell today, dragon-red streamers in a parade of pouring rain. It was lovely, and made me want to spin each leaf on its stem, examine all the lace veins and every dry serrated edge. Still, it took walking [...]
Posted in vacation on Jul 26th, 2009
Greetings from the north! There’s a wonderful Tell Simmer coming up tomorrow, and special guest posts after that – but first, a quick flaming postcard from the lake. We’re enjoying marvelous days of sunny breezes, cold waves and hearty, hike-inducing meals. And because the lodge dining room’s Swedish meatballs, house-cured gravlax and wild blueberry desserts [...]
If you’ve ever read this post – the one about diamonds and pie – you’ll know that it’s that time again, the time when we get in the car and drive north, and north, and more north. We stop right before people wave maple leaf flags, way up in the tall green woods, at a [...]
Posted in new old house, vacation on Jan 21st, 2008
For the past four summers, we’ve escaped the punishing August Kansas heat by driving up the breezy, blissful North Shore of Minnesota’s scenic Highway 61. If you too parcel out vacation time around work, school and kids, you know that it’s rare to deliberately return to the same place over and over again. We used [...]
