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  • Of Trees and Roots and Names of Things

    When my grandpa Averill bought property on Wolf Lake in the Irish Hills of Michigan in the early 40s, he picked the choice lot for himself, and then parceled out smaller lots along the lake edge in a little barony he named “Averill’s Basswood Terrace”. (My grandpa liked to see…

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  • Chore chart for mom

    These are the daily ones. Dinner, treadmill, gather stuff to donate/recycle/pitch, and check the kids’school work. Weekly/monthly ones are described in the blather below. Some…

  • Entry for August 29, 2006

    Here’s my chore chart — or at least the beginning of it. It’s in the cork side of my kitchen cabinet where we just tore…

  • The calm before the storm: making preparations

    In two weeks, I go back to school. It’s been 20 years since I last wandered around a college campus.  Now, at 45, I’ve made…

  • Entry for May 14, 2006

    So often, we stumble into our destinies, not watching where we are going. Motherhood is like that. Some blithely marry and set to the project…