Monthly Archives: November 2011

Winter Sleep

If you’re reading Mary Oliver’s Twelve Moons as a lunar calendar with me this year, it’s time another poem, this one for the first quarter moon: Winter Sleep. Like the last selection, I messed with the sequence a bit to … Continue reading

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Bachelor Homesteader

Today Michelle’s moving out of the homestead for a while. Except for a couple of weekends, she’ll spend the next three weeks chaperoning friends’ children in town. We call it “chaperoning,” because at their age “babysitting” just doesn’t apply. She’s … Continue reading

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