Letters from a Hill Farm

This month’s entry is purely whimsical - a story told to her by man who heard it from his cousin who knew a cousin of the man who cut d...

How do I explain why I love this 1980 movie so much? I must have seen it when it first came out, but since then I haven’t gone looking fo...

For this week’s Weekend Cooking ,  I thought I’d offer pictures my kids posted on Instagram of their versions of Bee-bim Bop, base...

Three years ago, almost to the day, I posted about my new clothesline. I didn’t keep it there too long. Turns out that the little walkway o...

There's a wonderful 2011 short (about ten minutes) film on youtube called Friend Request Pending which stars Judi Dench. It is simply de...

I must say right at the beginning that I have never eaten an omelet. I’m a little funny with eggs. I like scrambled eggs cooked the Mary Po...

This was in the Barnes and Noble Review, here . If you've read my letters for a while, you know how fondly I feel toward Laurie Colwin. ...

In the days leading up to Easter I read Spot's First Easter to Hazel Nina. She enjoyed it just as much as Spot's First Christmas ...

The first episode when we meet Mrs Bale  in As Time Goes By, she makes pina coladas.  Lionel’s father Rocky  says, She...

Mrs. Appleyard doesn’t beat around the bush when it comes to expressing her feelings about the month of March!  No matter how often she...

Mary Oliver says in her book Dog Songs And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief,...

Slow Spring O year, grow slowly. Exquisite, holy, The days go on With almonds showing the pink stars blowing  And birds in the ...

I wanted very much to post Van singing this in a live performance, but the one I found was too fast and upbeat for this very sad song. This ...

The Rude Visitors by Gail Chislett illustrated by Barbara Di Lella children's book 1984 finished 3/12/15 There aren't words...

5. Bee-bim Bop  by Linda Sue Park illustrated by Ho Baek Lee children's book 2005 finished 2/2/15 I wrote about this here . ...

Each time I do a post about What I Learned From TV, I’ll begin with the explanation from the first posting : Now that my kids are gro...