Month: February 2012

  • I planted hellebore to see something blooming in the garden in February. This little guy fills the bill. And any day now, the daphne with its tiny intoxicating blossoms will kick in, too, and I will suddenly want to be outdoors again. Having grown up in places where winter covers everything with snow and blooming…

  • If you save the dishes until later because the now of dish washing is a drag, the later of dish washing will be even worse because you will be rushing to get them done half an hour before your friends arrive at the door and you want those friends to think you are not the…

  • Writing badly is easy. You just open up the mental spigot and words flow out of your fingertips and pretty soon you’ve filled a bunch of pages. Writing well is hard. You open up the mental spigot and words flow out of your fingertips and pretty soon you’ve filled a bunch of pages and then…