February 16, 2026 By Maria It feels like the White Witch from C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia has descended upon our town. We have had a consistent layer of snow and ice everywhere for well over two weeks now. It’s still mostly beautiful with the occasional cluster of gray dirty snow. We even had someContinue reading “Always Winter”
Category Archives: Winter Stories
Poetic Snow and Frozen Sidewalks
February 05, 2026 By Maria I love the snow. Not the inconvenience of it, but I love how the landscape looks covered in a blanket of white. I love how everything has an overall quiet and poetic stillness. When you wake up early in the morning just after a snow fall, it is especially silent;Continue reading “Poetic Snow and Frozen Sidewalks”
Books of the Month – December 2025
Books of the Month – December 2025 Better late than never! Just in case you missed anything, I put together a list of the books I wrote about in December (There were no posts in January 2026). At the end of each month, I will write a list of all the books I wrote aboutContinue reading “Books of the Month – December 2025”
Joyful Anticipation
December 23, 2025 By Maria As Christmas gets closer there is a communal sense of waiting and preparation in the air. Of course there is pre-Christmas craziness -last minute shopping, baking, and obsessive checking of shipping status for online orders (that was me last year). Besides the pre-Christmas stress, I love the preparation and waitingContinue reading “Joyful Anticipation”
As Winter Comes
December 20, 2025 By Maria It is cold! I walked our dog one morning with my scarf up to my eyes, my hat down to my eyebrows and my head bent to the bone chilling wind. I let him lead me down the familiar streets. He’s pretty good at finding the way home and weContinue reading “As Winter Comes”
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