We took a train up the coast for a bit more than an hour to the end of the line and arrived at Rockport, a seaside town at the edge of MA, overflowing with hundreds of thousands in summer, and a icy windswept ghost town in winter. We had some fresh walks on the beach, [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Rockport
Posted in general on February 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The sea
Posted in general on February 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I really feel like the beach. I have this photo on my wall and when I look at it I just want to be there, swimming, and smelling like the sea, salty and fresh.
The sun streaming in our windows all morning has made me feel like it could really be February.
You know the sort [...]
getting the guttery on me
Posted in general on February 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We always walk to the grocery store and trundle home with our food laden in backpacks and hand held bags. Today we had to traverse giant puddles and ice to get there, and on the way home some truckin’ smarm hole drove their car through a puddle near the sidewalk and saturated me in [...]
Blue cheese, lanolin, goats, and berets.
Posted in craft, politics on February 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The smell of blue cheese and of lanolin remind me of the woolshed and jumping off the big oily sheepy stage into a pile of newly shorn wool. I bought some massage oil the other day that has lanolin in the ingredient list. Amazingly, the company tells me that they “call this popular [...]
Baby Hope
Posted in general on February 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The happy news is official now. I’ve been obsessively email checking all day. Some very good friends had their first baby, a little girl with a beautiful name . She has been looking forward to having a baby for so long and now she has arrived! How exciting, [...]
