Leaving Nantucket So Kevin didn’t think my first back-from-vacation photo was scenic enough. Well, here’s another. It’s more of what you’d expect from a Nantucket visit, I’m sure. It was a bit disturbing that every single house and building on the island was shingled in the exact same way. They […]

Journals for Baby Smith When the social worker told us the other day that she doesn’t forsee any problems with our adoption, meaning the adoption study has gone well, I breathed a sigh of relief. Maybe this state of “suspension” we’ve been in is similar to what a pregnant couple […]

In our living room

Our yard is full of little helicopters Rainy weather doesn’t motivate me to do much, even though I have a full list of things to tackle. Yard work? Not so much fun when it’s soggy. Painting? The air is full of humidity. That can’t be good, right? Fixing fences and […]

Tracy sitting among the art at Adobe It rained today. A lot! It’s been raining for about two weeks now with brief periods of sunshine in between. But today was a different story. Today was the day the skies opened up and dumped buckets…wheelbarrows…no, dumptrucks of rain on us. My […]