Vesuvius At Home

photo thanks to RWLinder from rbgstock.com It took forever to get out of Colorado, but too quickly the mountains were gone from my rear...

Woke up too early with Indy's eyes shining up at me, blinking like soft bats in the dawn. She hasn't slept a night in her own b...

I love you guys and I miss you so much. It's like the pacific northwest here. Our neighbors called it a rainforest and we laughed....

The three girl cousins roamed the yard like fireflies in the dying light. We said goodbye. I cried myself to sleep at four in the...

There was a farmer's market in the Highlands with a bouncing  castle  and the best veggie quesadillas I've ...

Because of the statewide ban, we bought no fireworks. We left my sister's house at the fullest bloom of dusk. Got in the car and we dr...

One thing about me is that for a writer, I often make myself spectacularly unclear. Last week, when I was saying that I was going to liv...

Four days until we abandon our home to go live in a van down by the river. Perhaps we will become river people, with tambourines and se...

When it became clear that we were going to have nowhere to live for the month of July, the obvious choice was to take a vacation. Mr. V ...

My dad and his brother Eric in their youth, must be about 1872 or something. Dad and me, and grandma either behind or ref...