Still Waters

It’s quiet in my house. The kids are off with the dear husband at a neighborhood party I’ll join them at in a little while. Outside, a lawnmower buzzes. The light reveals autumnal clarity and a few leaves have turned colors and dropped, quietly and without...

Starts and Starts

It's been a week focused upon beginnings around here. For all four kids, it was the first week of school. That’s right, even Saskia has her own school (she’ll be spending three mornings a week at the wonderful, warm, homey Sunnyside Child Care Center)....

Walk Which Way

Until I read about myself—well, not me specifically, let’s just say my ilk—I never knew I had become a “free-range” mother. Of course, my immediate association is that I should get chickens of the free-range variety and much as in theory...