MUSINGS ON LIFE AND WRITING WITH SARAH BUCKLEITNER
Ever since I was a child, I've wanted chickens of my own. I remember visiting the local farm near our house, and my best friend, Amanda, and myself hunting for eggs to hide in our pockets, so that we could bring them home and try to incubate them. Once, I even brought home an egg … Continue reading On Feathery Friends
With a new house comes a new garden, and this time we're ready to to take it to a new level. A quick note though: to be clear, we're not trying to homestead here. Neither Jordan or myself has any interest in trying to grow all of our own food. That takes a level of … Continue reading On The Start of a New Garden
When we first moved to this little plot of land in Upstate New York, the overgrown cow pastures that made up the field behind our house seemed almost devoid of animal life. In our first forays to explore it, we waded through densely growing goldenrod and gorgeous (invasive) purple loosestrife. Our clothes caught on (also … Continue reading On Abundant American Woodcocks
Last week, I read an article on hobbies that talked about the fact that most people struggle to pick them up and then keep going. As someone who has both glommed onto my hobbies as a central, shaping force in my life, and abandoned hobbies (like the guitar I tried to pick up in college), … Continue reading On Picking Up Hobbies
Today, on a walk around the block, I ran into the mom of one of my childhood friends. We had the whole gang with us: Linden putzing along in his red and yellow car, Hollis gnawing the strap of his carrier on my back, and Jordan, hand-in-hand with my mom. The gang We chatted for … Continue reading On Collective Grief
Recently, we moved back into my childhood home. On one of our first weekends back, I was cleaning out what would soon be my son's closet (which happened to be the closet that I had spent my own childhood stuffing chock full of stuffed animals, prom dresses and board games), and I pulled out a … Continue reading On Finding An Audience
(Written January 2020, shortly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. As you can imagine, some of these goals got derailed by our loss of childcare and working full time jobs--but some flourished in the space that lockdown provided. I'll try to elaborate on all of that in another post soon!). For the last few … Continue reading On Living in Accord With the Land
(Written April 2021) Life feels very hard right now. Both on the small scale, and on the large scale. We're coming off of three days of little sleep, with a sick kid who has alternated between lethargic, screaming, and hyperactive. Linden had to go to the ER this weekend, and I couldn't come, because of … Continue reading No Particular Wisdom
Tomorrow will mark one month since the newest member of our family, baby Hollis, was born. When Linden was born, we went simple--we packed our bags with the bare minimum, and forewent many of the items that were listed as necessary on the hospital bag lists that I found. This time around, we knew what … Continue reading Hollis and the twinkly lights
Starting off with a socially-distanced trip to Florida with Grandma and "Baba." This is how this day will always look in my memories: soft, pastel, centered on this small human's joy. Together in the vastness of the ocean Seashell collecting A most beloved Baba Sunset beach ballet Curve of the waves, light on his spine … Continue reading May 2021
