Spring in Maryland: it's like this most years, is it not?
this
First, it's cool as we transition from winter into spring. It rains sometimes; it's sunny and near-perfect other times; the world…
It's 4:20. In the morning. And I'm just coming home from sitting with a crying, intoxicated woman in my car. A stranger, no less
You could, of course, tell me it isn’t…
Anniversaries can be strange things. Even years later, the anniversary of an event and the memories around it can still resonate strongly.
A few days ago, I started thinking of …
It does not matter whether the cherry blossoms and first wave of spring flowers come early in the season or late. It does not matter whether a particular spring is wet and cool…
No matter whether the cherry blossoms and first-wave spring flowers come early or late, whether spring is a wet and cool or warm and lovely (well, spring is always lovely in Maryland), or…
Well, this certainly wasn't anything I was expecting to see upon coming home this afternoon.
bear witness to the journey
Poor little thing must have traversed earlier today rather hot asphalt, then it…
Today has been a day of many errands. Many engagements with many "strangers," and people I don't know: the gal at Target with whom I started chatting in the cleaning-supplies aisles, the cashier…