Remember back a few months when we shared favorite foods our mom’s used to make? One of mine was zucchini fritters: Mother had a vegetable garden when we lived in New Jersey (my high school a…| mere-et-filles
Welcome fifth Friday and a fifth weekend! exclamation point and … acknowledgement of how weird time is when I share one peek a week into my life. I think it’s a mixed bag for most of us. and … Sojourners …| mere-et-filles
In most months, this would be my last TGIF post until next month’s Hello. This year, though, August is giving us four weeks and five weekends. I have community meetings spread across four wee…| mere-et-filles
July’s reading was, quite simply, amazing! I read about the same number of books as usual, but I don’t think I’ve ever had anywhere close to TEN starred titles. Those ten titles include five non-fiction, six written by white men …| mere-et-filles
We had a great trip to Nashville (see Grateful below), and how is it (nearly) mid-August?! In spite of all my wishes for an early fall, apparently last week was “first false fall”; it’s back in the 90’s. AND it’s …| mere-et-filles
For me that will always be the summer day of summer days – a cloudless sky, ditches and roadside deep in grass, poppies, cuckoo pint, trees heavy with leaf, orchards bulging over hedge briars.J.L.Carr, A Month in the Country In …| mere-et-filles
It’s Friday, y’all … and time for another peek into what’s happening around here through my favorite lens. This was yesterday morning’s porch time. I could write a who…| mere-et-filles
I really enjoyed everyone’s comments on last week’s post about my travel knitting plans. Apparently we are all over the place about how we plan and pack for knitting on the road. A lot …| mere-et-filles
Hello friends! It’s good to be home … sitting at my kitchen counter … looking back through the photos of the weekend. but of course it’s Tuesday. and this past weekend was n…| mere-et-filles
aka “the one with the food and a cocktail”. and note I am writing this post on Friday afternoon, to be sure it lands in your feed reader at just the right time 😉. As I shared last week,…| mere-et-filles
This year’s trip* was maybe the most fun … the place we stayed was perfect for the four of us, the weather was cool and breezy but dry, the food and drink were amazing (as always) and I…| mere-et-filles
We really had a wonderful time. from last night’s dinner I’m sure you can’t tell. I took this parting shot this morning on the drive out of town. The road makes a hard turn to the…| mere-et-filles
Our family gathered in Beaufort, South Carolina this past weekend to celebrate my father’s life and legacy. With a nod to poem-in-your-pocket day (and a big thank you to Kym for the reminder!…| mere-et-filles
Labor Day is still a full month away, it feels like 92 degrees outside, and school buses have been practicing their runs for Monday’s official debut. I had coffee with a friend this morning (my small group is on a …| mere-et-filles
The hydrangeas are looking great! which is more than I can say for other parts of our landscape. I usually share a photo like this in August (these are the daisies by our neighborhood gate) … we are tired & …| mere-et-filles
Happy Friday*! We’ve reached the back half of the month and our kiddos have just two more weeks of summer vacation. which seems totally bonkers. and real. I have two meetings on Sunday about …| mere-et-filles
It’s Friday! (wow. finally.) I realized when I shared my March Looking Back post earlier this week that it had been a while since I’d had posted actual knitting content here. Consider t…| mere-et-filles
As promised, the view to open this post is one from the porch (which faithful readers might recognize from my June 27 post). Dark-early reading still happens in the library, but after morning walk/pilates, say 7:30-ish, we try for thirty …| mere-et-filles
The hydrangeas exploded this week, Marc harvested more cucumbers & tomatoes, my toes are freshly pedi’d (again with OPI’s Cajun Shrimp), and Sara & Fern are coming for dinner. H…| mere-et-filles
Happy Friday the 13th! I’m not at all superstitious … while I was working on this post the clouds cleared and there’s blue sky out my window for the first time in days. Would I be…| mere-et-filles
Yay! It’s Friday … which means another installment from the Alaska Travelogue. Today we’re going to travel back to Sitka, on August 22. It was another drizzly morning when we made…| mere-et-filles
Wow y’all. May feels like the longest month ever. It’s the 5th Friday and it will still be May tomorrow. It’s rained every day this week; we are so ready to see the sun! and in th…| mere-et-filles
Back home again (!! and for the foreseeable future) and happy to report that our second Rose Festival Weekend was even better than the first one. Becca did join us and the weather could not have be…| mere-et-filles
on the way! Karen drives, I’m shotgun, and Lydia and Polly are lovely backseat drivers Our 14th weekend in Beaufort was a(nother) good one. Our first was in 2007 (we missed a few years along …| mere-et-filles
We started talking about and planning this weekend last July … we chose Thomasville because it’s not too far for a long weekend (about 4 to 4-1/2 hours driving time) and we wanted to vi…| mere-et-filles
This past weekend was our 13th(!!!yes, this amazes all of us!) … and happy to report it lives up to all our shared expectations. From my perspective, the weekend is all about sharing this pla…| mere-et-filles
Thank you all for your good travel wishes … our trip to Thomasville was amazing! I hesitate to call it a “day trip”; door to door, it was 15 hours for me (and several of those hou…| mere-et-filles
I left home dark early Monday morning and slept in my own bed Thursday night. Looking back at the photos, I’m really impressed with how much I saw in that short time. Lauren and her husband B…| mere-et-filles
Welcome home me! Our 12th(!!*) visit to Beaufort was memorable in all the good ways. I just spent a few hours looking back at this year’s photos and previous years’ blog posts (#beaufor…| mere-et-filles
Happy Friday, friends! Today I have the first post about our Canadian trip. I’m still thinking about how I’ll share it all, but I’ve decided it’s best to start with an overv…| mere-et-filles
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
As she works, she considers what she might do with her crops. Betty has a recipe for raspberry shortbread she could try, if she saves up her margarine rations. This imaginative pondering feels as i…| mere-et-filles
…and just like that I find myself at the end of another month. this time seated at the desk in my study … a seat that’s been empty for weeks, partly because it’s cold in thi…| mere-et-filles
Hello and happy π day to all who celebrate! We are having pizza tonight to celebrate :-) It’s been a full week, y’all. and I am happy to be sitting here in the quiet Greenwood apartment…| mere-et-filles
Hi, hello, and it’s Friday y’all! In lieu of my usual TGIF post, I’m going to tell y’all about our week. Lucy and I took a little road trip, I made it to sleeve island, and …| mere-et-filles
all my 2024 reads are shelved on Goodreads here As weird as November was in many ways, I was still reading. every day. maybe not as much as usual, but still … and in contrast to the podcasts …| mere-et-filles
I believe joy is not only a choice, but an act of resistance to the darkness. To choose joy, to share joy, and to celebrate the joy of others is to refuse to allow the darkness to define us or our …| mere-et-filles
Well hey there, it’s been a minute. and it’s Friday … which should be the easiest day for me to ease back into a blogging habit. Lydia invited me and Lucy for snacks and knitting …| mere-et-filles
Welcome to this last Friday of December, the one where the Twelve Days of Christmas are just beginning, the new year is still a few days off, the refrigerator is so full of leftovers I won’t …| mere-et-filles
… and just like that, it’s the Friday before Christmas. or as we’re saying in our family this year Chrismukkuh (iykyk). At Thanksgiving (when we were last together), it seemed lik…| mere-et-filles
In these weeks the town has seemed more than ever to her eyes beautiful, the rich bronze tones of November darkening at night into deepest liquid blue.Sally Rooney, Intermezzo Say what you want abo…| mere-et-filles
all my 2024 reads are shelved on Goodreads here October reading was … a while ago?! really only weeks, but “the before times”?! I’m grateful again for these monthly practice…| mere-et-filles
November has finally arrived … sweaters, mittens, hats, rain (no snow), wind … and I am not sorry. neither is Lucy. We both love the cozy fireplace vibe in the library … and I thi…| mere-et-filles
I could not help but notice that my neighbor’s new* tree – a redbud – is offering a heart if I care to pause and notice. which of course I do. I also notice the beautiful shading …| mere-et-filles
all my 2024 reads are shelved on Goodreads here June didn’t have a James, or a Howards End/On Beauty pairing (May was fabulous), but it was another strong month – 18 books and I starred…| 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
Hello friends and happy Friday. It’s been A Week here and many most of my plans went by the wayside. My family are all safe, even celebrating some personal milestones and accomplishments (my …| mere-et-filles
Hello friends and happy last Friday of August. I’ll reflect back on the month as a whole next week (maybe?!) so today’s post is just about this week. I slept. I made plans. I thought a …| mere-et-filles
Hello friends and happy Friday. That photo up top is from Monday … we had some much-needed rain over the weekend, which ushered in “summer” that didn’t feel like Atlanta. Th…| mere-et-filles
all my 2024 reads are shelved on Goodreads here After June’s abundance of stars, July’s reading was a bit more … “real”? These monthly graphics show the covers in the …| mere-et-filles
I snapped the photo above on today’s afternoon walk. We’ve had less than 1/4″ of rain this month. I’m drinking so much water; I can tell Lucy to drink water and give her a &…| mere-et-filles
Hello friends and happy Friday! The earnest enthusiasm I felt for this new month has persisted in all the ways that matter. The boys are off to a great start for their new school year. Sara invited…| mere-et-filles
tinypicksproject shared this photo with Mary Oliver’s words on July 27 (here). I’ve had JOY on my mind a lot these past few weeks. Looking back on July and into this first week of Augus…| mere-et-filles
click an image to see it bigger and check out my 2024 shelf on Goodreads here As promised in last week’s June reading report, today I’m looking at 2024 reading mid-year. It does help th…| mere-et-filles
Hello friends and happy Friday! This week, we had much needed rain and cooler temperatures, which combined with Kamala Harris’ pending nomination to bring a sense of energy I haven’t fe…| mere-et-filles
