I always think of Memorial Day Weekend as the start of summer so: “summer begins”. Yesterday was the last day of school (it was like a Sunday morning traffic-wise when I drove to the bo…| mere-et-filles
books are listed in the order I finished them – all my 2025 reads are shelved on Goodreads here April was a great month for reading … I was totally wow’d by EIGHT books (and to be …| mere-et-filles
Hello Friday! It’s been a long week … Monday feels like a month ago and even Wednesday feels like days (more than just two). I’m very happy to be sitting at the kitchen counter, t…| mere-et-filles
Hello Friday! Hello lilies! Marc planted one little lily a few years back. Every summer/fall/winter I fret that our landscapers have killed it … and then in the late spring it comes back. big…| mere-et-filles
Sometimes, two of them will take a boat and sail downstream, to reach a new place where they can start a new story. How will that story go? Who will tell it, and whom will they tell it to?Hiromi Ka…| mere-et-filles
The photo above is from today’s morning walk … a smidge later than usual and our first without a flashlight in months. Hello May! with thanks to Diana Butler-Bass for sharing yesterday …| mere-et-filles
Happy Friday … quickly! Marc is home for the weekend (this makes THREE in a row!) and I’m headed to Beaufort (our 15th weekend there!) shortly. My mom, sister, and sister-in-law drove d…| mere-et-filles
last Saturday’s morning walk … and we’ve made it to another weekend. The collection of updates I want to share don’t fit (neatly anyway) my usual T-G-I-F so this is just a l…| mere-et-filles
On Instagram, I am "wife. mother. marmie. knitter." and that sums up most of what I am - but I also enjoy walking & yoga, reading, and long conversations (over coffee or wine, depending on the …| mere-et-filles