Where They Empty all the Hourglasses. Sunday, May 22, 2011. It was crowded and I was the only toubab. This one baby looked at me and actually started crying in terror. Dedicated to Tasia Poinsatte and Sofia Laguna.

Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Phew! Easter was a fun, relaxing day - baskets, church and lunch with family followed by naps and some quality time with the cough made it quite a perfect day. The days of matching bunny ears are gone for my large one, but the two little ones are hanging on to their Easter memories and traditions. Love all three of them.

A daily window into ordinary lives in a most extraordinary time. Saturday, August 11, 2012. This morning the sunflowers I stuck out at the end of the yard, out in the blazing summer Florida sun, bloomed. One on the end had opened two days ago, but then, literally overnight, the others joined their sister. Amazing relics, sustainable in their adaptable simplicity. Out back the bromelia bloom a month early, but are a welcome site nevertheless. Despite the infestations, some tomatoes continue to chu.