PostAday: Looking Around

“What are you looking forward to this year?” That’s a darn good question, actually. I remember when my family and I moved much closer to my parents, after a period of some eight years’ distance from them, and how horrified I was at my mother’s insular outlook.  For instance, even though she loved to read, [...]

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Common Folk

When you walk the Common, as I have now for three months, certain people keep cropping up, and you  get to know a bit about those you walk with. One man, it turns out, is my “neighbor,” in that he comes from the same part of town as I do — my husband, who jogs [...]

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Common Life: August 24, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

5:30 a.m. on a rainy morning in late August is a very different proposition from 5:30 a.m. on a sunny morning in early July. On Wednesdays my sister and I meet for breakfast.  We catch up with news about each other’s families, and my sister, who is the maven of the family, brings me up [...]

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Common Life: August 6, 2010, 5:30 a.m.

An ugly reminder that not all Common Life is benign and friendly. On Sunday, August 8, the hubster and I had to attend the wedding of a friend in a local Protestant church.  This presented problems in attending our own services, since the very local church we could normally attend is closed every other weekend [...]

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Common Life: July 27, 2010, 8:00 a.m.

Got up a bit later than usual, so was not out the door until after 7:30 a.m., and walking by 8:00.  The crowd, naturally, is different, but not more numerous.  It’s interesting to me that both times of the day seem to be peopled by retirees; you’d think that earlier in the day would draw [...]

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Common Life: July 26, 2010, 5:30 a.m.

Nobody is on the Common at 5:30 a.m. besides me.  I can hear you saying, “You seriously thought there would be?!” but when I began walking, back at the end of May, there actually were other walkers at that hour.  Not many, true, but they were there.  Now they show up just as I’m finishing [...]

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Introduction to The Common

Since it was pouring when I woke up at 4:30 a.m., I decided to forgo my morning walk.  So today is as good a day as any to introduce the Common. Most New England towns and cities have a Common, a place where townspeople could graze their one or two family cows and a few [...]

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Silence…for no good reason

Well, except that I am so close to finishing that dratted train cross stitch (see blog header) that I have been putting in most of the hours of my day on that.  Also, because nothing much has been going on around here. We did finally unload my father-in-law’s house.  I didn’t want to blog about [...]

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