My Facebook memories have begun showing me photos of the tree I call the “Quaker Maple.” My apartment up in the Philly area was directly across the street from a Friends Meetinghouse with a huge, probably 150-year-old, maple in the yard. Every morning in the fall I got to walk out my door to the […]

Remember the other week when I said the weather had turned, but I wasn’t too hopeful it would stay? Today’s high was 97 degrees Fahrenheit. But next week. Next week looks promising in the forecast. I’m hopeful again. I heard a sad line in a TV show this week about hope being a tease, and […]

The End is Near Pre-order Ember’s End and The First Fowler! And t-shirts. (But the new mugs sold out–sorry!) You can preorder all of the available items NOW! Shirts and The First Fowler will ship December 9 and Ember’s End will ship in the Spring of 2020. I’ve had a really busy year–well, 18 months. And I’m suddenly at […]

The weather turned. I sat down next to my cat this morning as she sniffed at the breezes that came in the open window and found myself doing the same thing. It smelled like fall. My friends further north are posting photos of their first apples of the season. My playlists find themselves wanting to […]