marc and katie's life

We're packin' up our every possession and headin' West!  Our ten-day road trip will include Niagara Falls, Mackinac Island, the...

Thanks to Marc, we never ran out of firewood.  That pile was always stocked.  But we did do without a lot of stuff in this experimental y...

Before now, I'd never been to Cape Cod.  But I'd read a few novels set there, and the Cape Cod of my imagination was dreamy and myst...

I've always liked the Shakers.  What's not to like about a people whose intention was nothing less than to build Heaven on earth? ...

Photo-tour of ways we tried to distract ourselves from the fact that Spring was just a cold wet mess this year in New England:  The Big A...

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn wha...

On Earth Day we had ourselves a little coastal cleanup.  There's nothing like cleaning up other people's litter to make you depresse...

Sunset in the Windows Our landlady had a whole bunch of antique chairs in sad shape.  I agreed to bring them back to life in exchange for...

Last winter I busted out the knitting needles for the first time since we moved to England, and kind of went berzerk.   I had about twenty p...