Table of Contents
Year 1 of Butterfly Mind: June 7, 2012 – June 6, 2013

One last move, June 7, 2012
Haiku for the road, June 11, 2012
Haiku from the road, June 15, 2012
A small thing my dad never knew, June 17, 2012
Life in a college town. With kids., June 19, 2012
Like the Halloween Blizzard of ’91, July 1, 2012
What to do with this butterfly mind, July 6, 2012
Haiku from the porch, July 8, 2012
The thing I dreaded most, July 12, 2012
Gaia Pumpkin Spice Soap, September 14, 2012
Slogging through Moby Dick, September 22, 2012
The heft of an old Minolta, October 2, 2012
In the quiet of morning, October 13, 2012
Durable Happiness, October 18, 2012
The Grandaddy of all gift cards, October 19, 2012
Haiku from the leaf pile, October 23, 2012
In a bay window, October 25, 2012
Staying in my sunbeam, October 26, 2012
Gobble Cakes, October 28, 2012
Hurricane memories, October 30, 2012
Bookish, October 31, 2012
Snow day recipes…, November 2, 2012
Dear Diary, November 3, 2012
Boy declares Dragon’s Tooth “Best hike Ever…”, November 5, 2012
Haiku from November, November 7, 2012
I quit my job, November 9, 2012
I got a free facelift, November 10, 2012
How haiku saved me from a mid-life crisis, November 13, 2012
There’s power in that adjective, November 15, 2012
Cascades of green in winter, November 18, 2012
Shining Dad’s shoes, November 19, 2012
Haiku of late autumn, November 21, 2012
Men and their socks, November 26, 2012
I ♥ Introverts, November 28, 2012
New keys, November 30, 2012
Haiku from a winter run, December 2, 2012
Visions of rum balls danced in her head, December 6, 2012
I think I tipped the wrong guy, December 19, 2012
How I saved the pralines (and the pralines saved me), December 20, 2012
A taste for excellence: re-reading The Shipping News, December 22, 2012
Buts, December 24, 2012
Haiku from Christmas, December 25, 2012
Precious gifts: electronics, December 26, 2012
Emergency gin, December 27, 2012
The time someone tried to give my dad an elephant, December 28, 2012
The time my dad got chased by an elephant, December 29, 2012
The challenge of the challenge: not editing., December 30, 2012
Don’t judge, December 31, 2012
Waiting for winter, January 6, 2013
Housekeeping schedule: dailies and weeklies, January 9, 2013
A morning in sounds, January 10, 2013
Meat under my nails, January 11, 2013
Insulted, January 12, 2013
Would I know how to do this if I had taken Home Ec?, January 13, 2013
Finding focus, January 15, 2013
Mom: score!, January 17, 2013
Sledding at night (or: Life in a college town…), January 18, 2013
Do we have to read this whole thing?, January 19, 2013
On being published, January 22, 2013
Grandma’s gin and milk, January 25, 2013
I remember, January 26, 2013
Sunday coffee, January 27, 2013
Reading Hemingway with our son, January 30, 2013
32 minutes of work for one minute of silence, February 1, 2013
Have you ever learned a critical lesson from an only okay book?, February 3, 2013
We talked to our kids about sex, February 5, 2013
Too much to see, February 7, 2013
A world of pleasure. In my nostrils., February 10, 2013
The Haunting of Hill House: Holy Crap., February 12, 2013
Click, and click, and click, and click, February 15, 2013
Gathering words, February 17, 2013
Lost Balls, February 19, 2013
Training ’em up for Euchre, February 22, 2013
Ironic table talk, February 26, 2013
At the table, March 1, 2013
Wild: a book review in four words, March 5, 2013
Snow day fatigue, March 6, 2013
Ready Player One: epic fun factor, March 8, 2013
The care and feeding of athletes, March 12, 2013
The prize at the bottom of the bottle, March 15, 2013
Toes like telltale crocuses, March 18, 2013
Spring cleaning checklist, March 19, 2013
I abandoned a book last night, March 21, 2013
The Swart, March 24, 2013
Reading Southern Women, March 26, 2013
Lexicon entry: animus, March 28, 2013
A day in the domestic life…, March 30, 2013
Learning to let go in the kitchen, April 1, 2013
Insomnia, April 4, 2013
Reading out loud, April 5, 2013
Confessions of a former bookseller, April 9, 2013
The Color Purple, April 10, 2013
I left our kids at home alone, April 12, 2013
From posts to “pieces”, April 14, 2013
Branches, buds, and blooms…, April 15, 2013
Local Authors to Present Works…, April 17, 2013
100 posts, 100 words, April 19, 2013
Sometimes, pretty is enough, April 22, 2013
Stitching sentences, April 24, 2013
Thaw, April 25, 2013
Spooning with you, April 26, 2013
A journalist I am not, April 28, 2013
I had a hankering to listen to Blondie, May 1, 2013
I think I may be drooling, May 2, 2013
Why creative writing matters: new findings on the brain’s reaction to language, May 3, 2013
The people I see on a Saturday morning, May 5, 2013
Completing work: the submission process., May 7, 2013
Writer’s Block (first published in Southern Women’s Review), May 8, 2013
For Mom, May 12, 2013
Blogkeeping, May 13, 2013
When nature is allowed to be nature, May 14, 2013
I’m a genius at the end of cleaning day, May 16, 2013
Indoor Appalachian entertainment at the Floyd Country Store, May 20, 2013
Are you a pantser?, May 23, 2013
In case you’re searching for a farting goat Venn diagram, May 24, 2013
Chasing fireflies in rural twilight, May 28, 2013
Why is this not headline news?!, May 30, 2013
Addendum to dangling prepositions post, May 31, 2013
June 1: Day of Reckoning, June 1, 2013
Do you know the “F” word?, June 4, 2013
We came to Florida for vacation and they named a storm after me,  June 6, 2013