From the category archives:

Revive

happy holidays

December 31, 2011

are spent like this:

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fashion queen at the end of the year

December 31, 2011

She’s given up her spare costume of last winter for some New Year’s Eve decadence. Garlic scapes, darling.

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Joyeux Noël à tous

December 24, 2011

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what a difference a day makes

December 23, 2011

On the first day of winter in New Hampshire, the ferns, though flattened, were green, the moss was bright emerald green, the mountain laurel was green, and this lovely ground cover was green, green, green:

On the second day of winter, my children’s dream of a white Christmas may be coming true.

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In Memoriam

December 19, 2011

So many friends and family members have experienced the death of someone near to them in this past year, and are still in the first year of mourning. Marge Piercy’s poem “Kaddish,” an interpretation of the Kaddish spoken by Jewish mourners during the first year after the death of a close family member, also seems [...]

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open winter

December 18, 2011

There’s this to say for it: we keep getting to walk in the woods.

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truth is where you find it

December 15, 2011

I’ve been meaning to post this since late summer, when I went not into the dark mysterious den of a fortune teller swathed in scarves and jewelry, but into a candy store. Wondering, as one does from time to time, what life held in store for me, I purchased a package of Fortune Gum, seven [...]

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Reading aloud in Advent time

December 10, 2011

I’ve been silent for weeks here, finishing NaNoWriMo (52K, baby!) and then, guess what, having so much fun on the current novel that it’s all I want to work on in those wee dark morning moments I secrete away for my creative delight. And by the way, I wasn’t having much fun for the first [...]

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