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The Sound of Melting

by Carole Duff | Mar 4, 2019 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Nature, Work & Writing | 2 comments

Saturday morning, we woke to ice-coated decks and trees. The temperature was right at freezing and rising. I knew the ice would melt and drip on Heathcliff and me during our morning walk, so I donned my rain jacket. What I was not prepared for was the sound of...

Writing Hard Stories

by Carole Duff | Jan 28, 2019 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Nature, Reading & Musings, Work & Writing | 4 comments

I open the kitchen door, and Freya rushes into the house. Once she’s done with her pre-dawn barking, she’s ready to come in. Now. Anticipating our walk, Heathcliff vacates the favored nest-bed in front of the wood furnace. Freya claims the warmth of both and settles...

I was just flashing back

by Carole Duff | Feb 5, 2018 | Faith, Local or Human Interest, Nature, Work & Writing | 0 comments

Keith reclined in his chair up in the loft, sipping his late Friday afternoon martini. “I was just flashing back to the year we spent weekends here.” “That was one of my favorite times,” I said, dropping the mail beside his chair and joining his reminiscence. “We’d...

First snow of the season and on being indispensable

by Carole Duff | Dec 11, 2017 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Local or Human Interest, Nature | 0 comments

It began gently before sunrise on Saturday morning, a cold, steady flow of fine flakes—the season’s first snow. I let Freya out to do her business and bark at the deer foraging in the forest. At daylight, she came back looking like an Iditarod sled-race dog, her fur...

Choosing Joy

by Carole Duff | Dec 11, 2013 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Family, Miscellaneous, Nature | 0 comments

As the season’s first major ice and snowstorm swept across the country this past weekend, our dogs mirrored the concern and exuberance that accompanies such natural events. When I opened the kitchen door to Sunday ‘s early morning ice pellets, Heathcliff stopped in...

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