TRUE CONFESSION: My INBOX Overfloweth!
I have a confession to make: for the past few months, I have had a growing creature on the corner of my desk. It was my INBOX. In the dark days of winter when I couldn’t face making decisions,...
View ArticleWho Wants Mail?
The month is nearly over and I almost missed it! The United States Postal Service has named April to be National Card and Letter-Writing Month. The USPS’s goal is to boost written—and...
View ArticleSaturday Snapshot: Baby Quilt
My new grandbaby is due to arrive this weekend and I’m having a hard time being patient. This is the quilt I made for them: machine-quilted, but it’s the first pieced quilt I’ve ever made – and some of...
View ArticleSAD TIMES or Why I’ve Fallen of the Face of the (Blogging) Earth
Okay, so I was never the most regular of bloggers and I was way behind in 2013, just giving you my monthly reading summaries. It was July when I posted “Books Read in May”. It was October before I...
View ArticleANYBODY OUT THERE? . . .there . . . there . . .
I have been absent from my blog for many, many, many months although I have been trying to keep current in the blogosphere, reading your posts and sometimes (alas, infrequently) commenting on them. I...
View ArticleThe Daylilies are in Bloom Again
(Does anyone remember Katherine Hepburn’s famous line in Stage Door, 1937: “The calla lilies are in bloom again.”)? When we moved here, there were several daylily plantings that have all thrived and...
View ArticleTaking a Break
Life is overwhelming me. Since my surgery (spinal fusion) in September 2015, I have been trying to regain the cleanliness and order in my life that I had been gradually losing over the ten years...
View ArticleTRUE CONFESSION: My INBOX Overfloweth!
I have a confession to make: for the past few months, I have had a growing creature on the corner of my desk. It was my INBOX. In the dark days of winter when I couldn’t face making decisions,...
View ArticleWho Wants Mail?
The month is nearly over and I almost missed it! The United States Postal Service has named April to be National Card and Letter-Writing Month. The USPS’s goal is to boost written—and...
View ArticleSaturday Snapshot: Baby Quilt
My new grandbaby is due to arrive this weekend and I’m having a hard time being patient. This is the quilt I made for them: machine-quilted, but it’s the first pieced quilt I’ve ever made – and some of...
View ArticleSAD TIMES or Why I’ve Fallen of the Face of the (Blogging) Earth
Okay, so I was never the most regular of bloggers and I was way behind in 2013, just giving you my monthly reading summaries. It was July when I posted “Books Read in May”. It was October before I...
View ArticleANYBODY OUT THERE? . . .there . . . there . . .
I have been absent from my blog for many, many, many months although I have been trying to keep current in the blogosphere, reading your posts and sometimes (alas, infrequently) commenting on them. I...
View ArticleThe Daylilies are in Bloom Again
(Does anyone remember Katherine Hepburn’s famous line in Stage Door, 1937: “The calla lilies are in bloom again.”)? When we moved here, there were several daylily plantings that have all thrived and...
View ArticleTaking a Break
Life is overwhelming me. Since my surgery (spinal fusion) in September 2015, I have been trying to regain the cleanliness and order in my life that I had been gradually losing over the ten years...
View ArticleCultural Definitions: Social Class Quiz
Hey guys, this is downright scary. I took this quiz, suggested by Kate at Books are My Favourite and Best, and it told me: “Your cultural tastes are most similar to a middle-class woman, aged 60+ with...
View ArticleReturning to a Blog Near You . . .
When I first posted this month for Nonfiction November, I implied that I was returning to my blog, after a break that started in May. Admittedly, it’s far easier to participate in prescheduled events...
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