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It'll Be a Winter to Remember...If We Get Through It
It'll Be a Winter to Remember...If We Get Through It

We were dealing most of the week with great piles of snow.

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Marge PiercyFebruary 6, 2022 Comment
Freezing Outside But Getting Stuff Done
Freezing Outside But Getting Stuff Done

One task we had been putting off for almost two years: we went through the refrigerator freezer.

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Marge PiercyJanuary 24, 2022 Comment
A Heartbreaking Week
A Heartbreaking Week

Mingus began to look under the weather last Friday.

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Marge PiercyJanuary 16, 2022 Comments
Back to What Passes for Normal These Days
Back to What Passes for Normal These Days

With the holiday tree given to the woods to turn slowly to compost and the ornaments packed away, the living room is back to normal, everything in its usual place.

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Marge PiercyJanuary 9, 2022Comment
S'long Tree, Hello Seeds
S'long Tree, Hello Seeds

New Year’s Day we take down our beautiful tree, perhaps the prettiest we’ve ever had.

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Marge PiercyJanuary 3, 2022Comment
More Manuscripts, More Eating
More Manuscripts, More Eating

Willow has fallen in love with the tree.

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Marge PiercyDecember 26, 2021Comment
Taking a Risk
Taking a Risk

We decided to once again hold our solstice party, the first since 2019.

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Marge PiercyDecember 20, 2021Comment
Of Mice and Manuscripts
Of Mice and Manuscripts

Mice are coming into the house on a regular basis. There have been four huge ones this week.

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Marge PiercyDecember 11, 2021 Comment
Submissions and Winter Arrive
Submissions and Winter Arrive

Submissions for my June juried intensive poetry workshop are arriving every day.

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Marge PiercyDecember 3, 2021Comment
A Really Wonderful Thanksgiving
A Really Wonderful Thanksgiving

Last year we had Thanksgiving on the porch in our winter coats with two friends. We could see our breath.Stuffed

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Marge PiercyNovember 29, 2021Comment
The Leak, the Furnace, Lobsters, and a Tornado
The Leak, the Furnace, Lobsters, and a Tornado

Friday, Woody discovered a leak from in a water pipe over the furnace.

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Marge PiercyNovember 22, 2021Comment
First Frost
First Frost

We had our first and then almost immediately our second frost.

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Marge PiercyNovember 15, 2021Comment
Email Hacked, Ears Fracked, Power Back
Email Hacked, Ears Fracked, Power Back

This week began with trying to get back to normal after the extended power outage. But troubles will not cease.

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Marge PiercyNovember 8, 2021Comment
No Power to the People
No Power to the People

The week started with the weather channel and the local news telling us a big storm was coming,, a cyclone bomb, a nor’easter with high winds.

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Marge PiercyNovember 1, 2021Comment
Warm and Busy Week
Warm and Busy Week

I’m currently off FB because nitpickers kept driving me crazy complaining of typos.

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Marge PiercyOctober 24, 2021Comment
Bad Hair, Bad Tech
Bad Hair, Bad Tech

I’m going through a permanent bad hair day.

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Marge PiercyOctober 16, 2021Comment
Vanishing Authors
Vanishing Authors

I happened to remember an author whose books I enjoyed perhaps ten or fifteen years ago. I wondered if she’d published anything recently. I went on Amazon to check: nothing at all.

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Marge PiercyOctober 11, 2021 Comment
Clafoutis and Good Friends
Clafoutis and Good Friends

All summer I’ve been baking clafoutis, as it’s more pleasant in the heat than making a pie.

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Ira WoodOctober 3, 2021Comment
The Wonder of a Good Novel
The Wonder of a Good Novel

Most people no longer read much that isn’t on a screen.

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Marge PiercySeptember 25, 2021Comment
First Trip Since Covid
First Trip Since Covid

Tuesday we drove to Maine. We’ve done this trip every year since 1984.

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Ira WoodSeptember 20, 2021 Comment
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