Every year, when spring slowly begins turning into summer, or when summer starts fading into fall, I feel something shift inside of me. It happens almost without warning. Maybe it’s the way the evenings begin to feel different.Maybe it’s the smell in the air.Maybe it’s the changing light. But every single year, those transitions pull […]

When Another Storm Is On The Way My husband has been telling me all week that we’re under a winter storm warning.The governor has even declared a state of emergency. The news says: “Total snow and sleet accumulations between 4 and 8 inches and ice accumulations between two tenths and four tenths of an inch. […]

The hardest part of winter for me is the freezing temperatures that turn me into a hibernating bear. I don’t love bundling up in extra layers just to step outside — and even when I do, there isn’t much to do when the world is sitting in the 30s. And those layers? They only work […]