Monday, March 23, 2009. In the last 48 hours we have had a sunny 75 degree afternoon, a windy, pounding rainstorm, thunder, lightning, hail and now a frosty 28 degree morning. Spring is a capricious sprite. But they generally leave easily-read footprints. The weather, animal behavior, the success or failure of my vegetable plants- the unpredictable pattern of these things reminds me never to assume I know what Mother Nature has up her sleeve. Sunday, March 22, 2009.

Saturday, March 14, 2015. A Life of the Twentieth Century by Irene Even. I firmly believe that we should never criticise others until we have a walked in their shoes. Do you recall that saying? I get a sense that the book has been toned down from the horrors that she would have observed. The patience that was exhibited to her husband is overwhelming and I am quite sure he deserved none of it. The decisions to move to Canada and to go into teaching, to follow her dreams.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions. Sunday, February 3, 2013. You can find us at our new site MeetTheShannons. Change is messy and glitchy and full of dead links and wonky photos. but there comes a point when new becomes not that new and you start to realize that you had out grown your old thing and the new thing is what you really needed.

The last few weeks of school are always really busy. The kids have had overnight trips, day trips, awards ceremonies, plays or some other event pretty much every day since the early part of May. One of them, anyway. The whole month of May went roughly in this direction . See you in a couple of weeks.