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June 2005

  • Dreams and images

    Simon has been sick all week. Fever. We think it’s the 3 huge molars that are pushing through his gums. Gotta hurt. It doesn’t help that it’s also hot outside. I made the mistake…

  • Soft all over

    Tooth brushing escalated to a full-blown water fight with Jasper the other night. I just couldn’t resist tossing a cupful of cold water at his belly as he was struggling to pull his t-shirt…

  • Summer holidays

    Lush is a great word. Alcoholic implications aside, it implies air thick with lilac, and long wet grass. I love May and June best of all months, but I also feel I do a…

  • I’m high

    The cabin and cottage are open for the season, and another family week in PEI is behind us. It was a great time. We were in swimming, even Simon, and had some delicious seafood…

  • Perspective

    The photo at right was taken in late May of 1995. That’s my mom and cousin at the top of my hill here at Walden. They were planting the chestnut tree that Mom and…

  • Jasper in his element

    Jasper’s in his element here at the cabin. He has Megan (7) across the road, 10 acres of trees, a wood stove and no official bedtime. He also has about a dozen black fly…

  • Encounter

    “I did not have sex with your father.” The conversation had started innocently enough. I was at the cash paying for gas and a Globe at the Hunter River Irving, when a woman next…

  • Escape

    It can happen without warning, like on a Thursday morning on the way to work. The only sign is a slight tightness in the leg, then sudden release. It happened to me this week,…