Eight years ago, when I moved into my house in Wisconsin, I fell in love with the vintage linoleum on the second floor. Strewn with pink cabbage roses the size of my fist, the (secretly awesome) floor in the master bedroom caused some of my friends to gasp aloud. “This is a floor to repel […]
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Thundersnow
We had wild, apocalyptic weather this week. Sleet, hard rain, cold winds that blew my umbrella apart, thunder and lightning, noisy hail pounding at the skylights, and then snow. Lots of heavy, flocking snow. I got up on Wednesday before my alarm, knocked all the snow from my crushed and sagging arborvitae, shoveled the driveway […]
Going home again
And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot Four Quartets I grew up on a sheep farm outside of Fargo, and that city, on the edge of the North Dakota prairie, is my home. I say this even […]
What to keep
Moving into a new home is a lot like editing a manuscript: you need to achieve a total clarity about your goals, so you can figure out what to let go and what to keep. A few years ago, I made a pass at revising an old story I’d written, and I kept too much. […]
Moving on
Lately, big changes have been brewing in Wisconsin, and we’ve decided to make the mountains our home. So we met with an agent on Thursday and listed the Wisconsin house for sale. After signing with the agent, I went home and ate cookies and sniffled. In fact, I may have even cried. I love our […]
Hoar Frost
It fades so quickly.