The Barn Project
Day 11: Cement and Synchronicities
It’s been lovely to live a bit in the past, as I sift through old photos and remember the house and yard the way it used to be. 2004 had…
posted December 1, 2017
The Barn Project
Day Ten: The Story of the Big Yellow House, part 3
I have no photos of the house from before 2005, because my hard drive crashed and I lost all my pictures. I still grieve this loss. Gone are most of…
posted November 29, 2017
The Barn Project
Day Nine: The Story of the Big Yellow House, part 2
The house was huge for one person, and I delighted in it. That first night, I climbed the elegant staircase and stood at the top, looking back down into my…
posted November 29, 2017
The Barn Project
Day Eight: The Story of The Big Yellow House, Part 1
I bought this house in 2003, when I was newly divorced, thirty-six and optimistic. I’d just signed a book deal with Scholastic, and I was working on the soundtrack to…
posted November 28, 2017
Parenting/The Full Catastrophe
The Barn Project
Day Seven: No Barn for a Horse Now
I love Thanksgiving weekend. I love a four day weekend, and I love this time of year when the trees are naked but winter has not yet frozen the ground….
posted November 25, 2017
The Barn Project
Day Six: Fix It
In the department of Decidedly First World Problems, I have a long list of broken items in my house. These include, but are not limited to: the refrigerator (for which…
posted November 22, 2017
The Barn Project
Day Five: Trees and Tofu
When times are dark, there are dogs and trees. I really am obsessed with trees this time of year. I am in love with that red maple. How many days…
posted November 21, 2017
The Barn Project
Day Four: A New Name
It took me fifty years to really love my name. I was thinking about this after seeing the luminous, hilarious, almost-perfect film Ladybird, about a girl named Christine who re-christens…
posted November 20, 2017
Journal
The Barn Project
Day Three: Foundations
I am writing this from Whole Foods in Hadley. I just came from the Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, where I heard my friend and Big Yellow writer Ruth Lehrer…
posted November 19, 2017
