I lost a chicken this fall. Not lost as in she ran away, but lost as in she was killed by a hawk. Poor thing.  I just happened to look out t...

About two weeks ago my bicycle disappeared from my front yard. Bicycles get stolen on Mackinac all the time, but rarely from dead end street...

I made it seven days. Seven days out of quarantine, five of them at work.  And then, someone decided to come to work sick. Sigh. This person...

This year I had a mouse and a traveler on the Oregon Trail. (He tells me, he wasn't just any old traveler, he was a specific character f...

I'm not sure what tonight it going to bring. No matter what happens, we're prepared. My husband and the kids built a socially-dist...

  The last couple of weeks have been odd. Like, really odd. For the past two weeks I've been teaching from home. OK, I know, lots of tea...

I'm so glad my husband, the kids and I got outside last week. We took a long walk through the woods on one of those perfect sweater-weat...

Much to my husband's dismay, I have always enjoyed Stephanie Meyer 's Twilight saga. This summer the newest book in the series c...

A staff member at school has tested positive for Covid-19, so I'm back to teaching from my dining room table. (Right now that person is ...

    ...fall flowers...