Archive - Notes from an Urban Cabin

A month of Sundays

Note 36: Odds and ends on the 8th Sunday of the year

Feb 25, 2024 •

Laura Lynn Brown

December 2023

Amid a pile of grading, an irrational, irrepressible, maybe momentary giddiness, from two sunny days in a row in this winter-gray city and a…

Note 35: Or maybe joy, or the moment the pilot light of "Christmas spirit" was lit

Dec 13, 2023 •

Laura Lynn Brown

June 2023

Summer Solstice: Notes from a rural cabin

Note 34: Welcome, summer

Jun 21, 2023 •

Laura Lynn Brown

Daylilies, details and delight

Note 33: Marking goodness in each day

Jun 5, 2023 •

Laura Lynn Brown

March 2023

A beautiful question

Note 32: Asking good ones can be a gift, a skill, an act of love

Mar 5, 2023 •

Laura Lynn Brown

June 2022

Daylilies in June

Note 31: Gardening and good days

Jun 6, 2022 •

Laura Lynn Brown

August 2021

Oncoming __________

Note 30: The power of a question

Aug 5, 2021 •

Laura Lynn Brown

August 2020

What I'll remember

Aug 16, 2020 •

Laura Lynn Brown

July 2020

Sad news on page A2

Jul 13, 2020 •

Laura Lynn Brown

March 2020

Spring cleaning

When I was a kid, every year around this time, Mom and Dad would work hard (and, it seemed to me, happily), shaking the winter out of the house.

Mar 30, 2020 •

Laura Lynn Brown

January 2019

Notes from an Urban Cabin #26 | "What Did You Notice?" and other questions

For 30 years or so, on a succession of refrigerators, I kept a copy of a Mary Oliver poem.

Jan 28, 2019 •

Laura Lynn Brown

November 2018

Notes From an Urban Cabin #25 | Winter Boxes

I'm choosing not to renew some of my magazine subscriptions.

Nov 21, 2018 •

Laura Lynn Brown

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