A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Strolling through a cemetery with your feet above the final resting place of individuals whose existence...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Carpe Verba! The girls introduced the "Woman of Words" to Bananagrams recently, and it was an instant hit. It...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Arrivederci, Tony! With Rome calling, Tony had to leave his happy place of Onekama and the jet ski, at least...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : I promise this isn't becoming a fishing blog, but yesterday did provide two Carpe Piscis moments worth sharing....

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : This isn't the first fish Cordelia has caught, but it is the first fish she's caught while wearing one of her...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : There are many fine and necessary forms of education available today, but to my mind this is the very best-- to...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : While I personally don't find fishing very alluring , Cordelia, our Jewel of the Sea, is a most enthusiastic...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : The boys are back in town: Aunt Marie's early birthday celebration brought together most of the boy cousins for...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Here we have a portrait of a pre-teen artist posing and a professional artist with a self portrait! Yesterday...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Carpe Salmon! The Big Lake means big fish, as our friend Tim's catch yesterday demonstrates. This particular...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : What precious treasures are the octogenerians and nonagenerians among us! My sister Felicia brought all these...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Tony Assaf won the Carpe Diem spotlight today when he succeeded in making a surprise visit home for our...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This cozy gathering concluded two days of small seminars at the Kirk Center, which I found profoundly influential....

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Once a teacher, always a teacher! Mom has been dedicated to this one room schoolhouse at School Section Lake since...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This morning, a summertime nature study idea that Sheila and I cooked up turned into reality! The Carrolls (see...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : I've been day dreaming of this morning coffee ritual on the water all year and finally seized the moment when...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Cordelia, an enthusiastic actress, and Valentina, a creative costume designer, played the roles of Snow White and...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : One of the best parts of celebrating the Fourth of July at Piety Hill is the variety of interesting friends...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Meet Magical Mr. Mistoffelees! The canny cat re-entered our lives the other day after a few years' sojourn at the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Finishing off the flurry of Kirk Center seminars over the past week was this small in-house seminar yesterday...