A New Journey – thank you Grandpa

Grandpa Sam loved blueberries. Not just any blueberry, though they’d do in a pinch. He loved the blueberries he picked himself. I would call from the West Coast during picking season, and more often than not I’d get Grandma on the phone, because he was out foraging, or sitting on the porch sorting through his bucketful […]

Flip flops in the snow…I get it now

Okay…so maybe I wouldn’t go so far as wearing flip-flops in the snow. Most of you probably wouldn’t either. But when I first got to Maine, I couldn’t understand why there were people in their shirt-sleeves when I was already shivering. On Halloween, me and my little guy were bundled up tight (it was around […]

Home…where exactly is it?

If you are at all familiar with facebook, you know that every once in a while something will pop up in your news feed, “A year ago today.” As I was finishing up my day yesterday, a picture appeared of my parents house in Greenville, snow banks up to the porch railing, with the date of 3/30/2014. The […]

I Think I Can…

When I was very young, I had a favorite book. It was one of those Golden Books, with the hard cover and paper pages, the ones you got after you learned that books were not for chewing. My favorite was The Little Engine That Could. It was a story about a small engine that had […]