Our chocolate milk pond. Every time I say to myself, Self, enough blogging about the weather; surely there’s more interesting things to report on about island life!, something new happens. Like, EPIC RAIN AND FLOODING. In mid-November, we were among … Continue reading
Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash I’ve been in a mad scramble of working and writing and list-making and shopping and pie-baking and house-cleaning and several dozen other things that I can’t even remember right now, so I have no … Continue reading
Since the start of the pandemic, we haven’t left the island much. This was not a huge hardship for us; we work at home, where we are comfortably situated and have plenty of room; we love it here. It’s all … Continue reading
Last summer, I got stuck in the novel I was writing. It had all been going so well, for quite a while there. That is, after the first few months of the pandemic, which distracted me so badly I couldn’t … Continue reading
Early morning, a week or so ago. I’d just come downstairs, in my yoga clothes, ready for my daily strenuous yet peaceful and contemplative Ashtanga practice. Before I rolled out my mat, I glanced out the front windows at the … Continue reading
Wasn’t it just summer a minute ago? I was going to go even farther and say, What happened to fall? We’ve gone straight to winter!, but that’s not quite true. Yes, I did have to pull out socks a few … Continue reading
Late one evening last winter, a tree fell down behind our house. It was at the edge of the back meadow, and had been ailing, though that had not yet been apparent to us. Weirdly, although that meadow is RIGHT … Continue reading
*(with apologies to Spencer Ellsworth) We knew there would be trade-offs involved when we decided to move from Portland, Oregon, to Orcas Island. We’d be leaving behind so many dear friends. There would be no more walking to Trader Joe’s … Continue reading
Photo by Infralist.com on Unsplash As I searched my mind (and my phone’s camera roll) for an interesting story to tell you about “island life” from these past few weeks…I came up kind of empty. And that is because these last few weeks … Continue reading
Photo by jaimy van kessel on Unsplash It was a strange sound, an animal sound. Perhaps even an animal-in-distress sound? It wasn’t a bird, we thought, probably, though it was a little screechy-chittery like a bird. I heard it when I got up … Continue reading
