Glimpse of Summer

☀️🏡🌸🐢🎣🦆 After yoga, I take a walk through the park and nearby neighborhood, listening to Ann Patchett’s collection of essays, These Precious Days, apt title for my life right now, my morning, this moment. I pass a house with such a vibrant garden of colorful blooms it rivals beds at the Lady Bird Johnson WildflowerContinue reading “Glimpse of Summer”

My Purrfectly Crazy Week

Nothing truly prepares you for motherhood. You may think you’re ready. You may have bought all the things you were supposed to buy and prepared all the accommodations you were supposed to prepare. You may even believe, naively, that you are mentally and emotionally equipped to devote your days to the care of someone otherContinue reading “My Purrfectly Crazy Week”

Finding Stillness (But Not Kittens)

I’ve spent the past few days setting up stakeouts to stalk a cat. There is a mama cat in my new neighborhood that recently had kittens. My sources say they were born on or around June 1st. No one has seen the kittens yet, but mama cat (who will be properly named once I getContinue reading “Finding Stillness (But Not Kittens)”