Tag: vines

  • An Autumn Field Report

    My life feels like it’s on fire right now—but my house looks like it thanks to the annual display put on by the Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia). While my life takes off, I’m too busy to even sit and consider what’ll happen to me now if I swell up. It took me a long time,…

  • Back Home from San Francisco, Back to Reality

    Back in our super quiet house (eerily so), with no foster respite children this weekend, I am dealing with the onslaught of rain, an elderly unwell feline family member, a pinch of jealousy that my husband is in New York City, and then there is this huge 20 pounds of furry feline in my lap…