by Margaret Philbrick | Jun 19, 2025 | Books, Community, Growing Life, Margaret's Musings
It’s impossible how fast babies grow in their first year! We hardly recognize them from the “old” newborn photos. Those scrawny little, needy babes get chunky, become aware and begin to vie for themselves. It’s the same in the life of a book....
by Margaret Philbrick | Apr 23, 2025 | Books, Community, Growing Life, Margaret's Musings
Back in my early Chicago days, I spent hours browsing the shelves of Aspidistra Bookshop on Clark Street. Within those creaky, wooden floors and miles of shelves I found my first collection of Ezra Pound and a gorgeous collection by the Russian poet, Yevtushenko. It...
by Margaret Philbrick | Aug 23, 2023 | Growing Life
Three weeks ago our first grandchild surprised us by coming into the world a month early, welcome Asher Scott! Countless friends have told us, “Being a grandparent is the most treasured time in life.” So many in fact, that we began to doubt this itty bitty...
by Margaret Philbrick | Apr 4, 2020 | Growing Life
Something new is springing up; we’re moving to a new state, getting to know a new town, rooting into a new community and while it’s exciting there is a bittersweetness. We’ve spent 29 years walking these creaky, oak floors and sharing one shower...
by Margaret Philbrick | Nov 4, 2019 | Growing Life
We couldn’t wait to get here. A gale force wind seemed to blow us across the Illinois border. Everything fell into place, even our dog loved her new life on Langdon. What dog wouldn’t love finding discarded pizza slices lying on the ground with every morning walk?...
by Margaret Philbrick | May 8, 2019 | Growing Life
Dear kids, Sorry, but we are packing boxes and probably annoying you with photos of random pieces of art accompanied by, “Do you want this?” May 24th is coming and then we’ll stop. We bought our little french cottage in February of 1991 and when we took your...
