.OPTIONS for a Better World

Hello from Provincetown! We are 95% moved in and the autumn seascape could not be more beautiful. I am still hibernating but I know r...

I wrote this a while back and I'm sharing now because it's time I've reclaimed my writing self on my blog. I got the idea for t...

Here's a first world problem: I'm here, this very place is barely a block away from where I sit now, I work very part-time in ...

Well, this is not entirely true. I love fancy meals and I'll spend my last dime on books and anything for the garden. But the last ...

Well: we're here. JB and I arrived in Provincetown 10 days ago, followed by a 35 foot moving truck 3 days after that. It's been ...

 What a bear it is to prepare and pack to move. Even though I've done it before, I had no idea. I am dreaming about boxes and missed dea...

They look like just things and boxes, but it's a trick. Every book I pack for Saturday's yard sale, every china cup I let go of...

With his own hands and help from his stepbrother and father, my Father built this house in the early 1940's. I  just learned th...

Well here I am. I wish I had words to describe the last month or so. Maybe Whirlwind. Memories. Possessions. Houses. Photos. Exhaustion. Em...

It's been so long since I've posted. Life is changing.  Before the Fall, I'll be leaving the farms of Western Massa...

I can't say exactly why I'm chuckling writing a lot of this book, but here's an example that cracks me up between my main ch...

Places I like Things to do Books Songs Movies Food Family Subjects Favorites Yup. That about does it. (okay, of cours...

This is a little boy, Mr. Ryan, age 8, who put words and pictures to his life and is excited about all of it. His family, Cape Cod, spor...

Christine Macabee, mother of four and lover of all poems good and bad, is a bona fide John Denver. groupie.  I'll let her tell yo...

Part 1: Reflection  Do you think this statement is true? I do. For various reasons I've been thinking about my life past and fut...