Field Notes ~ Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

Since it's the first snow day of the 2021-22 season, I was going to post my usual photo taken through the window of my chicken coop surr...

The long morning walk on the trail was finished and we headed back to the car, me thinking of coffee and toast, Abby thinking of her breakfa...

  I just finished this book -- What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing -- by Dr. Bruce Perry, a child psycho...

A photo on my photo doesn't capture how eye-catching this was My two-month term teaching position has ended, and I have today off.  It f...

  This sweet face is ten years old today. Abby is 10!  I'm very grateful she's made it to ten years with no health  Let's not ji...

How ironic!  The salsa garden ripened into perfect tomatoes and peppers AFTER I started school. So even though I didn't plan on doing pr...

You are never too old for a "first day of school" photo!  And you can never have too many flowers in the classroom.  I had two mor...