Letters from a Hill Farm

... stepping into the evening is the time to praise the day. Taylor Goldsmith song - Waiting For Your Call album - All Your Favorite Band...

Have you ever read any of the books in The Littles series by John Peterson? They were a big hit with my kids, and I still have their child...

I wrote in March about the death of our beloved Sadie. The weeks since have been very sad and lonesome. We haven't been without a dog i...

As I was watching the movie of 84, Charing Cross Road, I heard this, and thought I would share it here in my letters. So lovely. Aedh...

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.   Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'm not sure there is anything quite as wonderful as a spring evening, with all the windows open and a temperature of 70 degrees and the...

It’s rhubarb season!! Although most people use a knife, I go out with my trusty little Fiskars garden shears and cut it.  This reci...

Spring Pools These pools that, though in forests, still reflect The total sky almost without defect, And like the flowers beside th...

Here is Campbell Walker at his birthday party on Sunday. The theme was Where The Wild Things Are. He stayed dressed in his Max outfit for ...

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 ...