Handsful
I said it right there at the kitchen counter. I just said it. “Really Dennis! Who thought having four children was a good idea?” Oh! Ma! God! Did I really say that?! Just like the very young ultrasound...
View ArticleKondo-ing
Have you read it? Do you know about The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up? I’ve read it and now I am putting into practice the wisdom of the magnificent Marie Kondo. But, I did not always feel this way...
View ArticleSummer Carnage
The garden is weedy and leggy and the lettuce has bolted. Battered sneakers lay on the front steps, weathered from river walks. Bathing suits are faded and thread bare from chlorine and salt water. My...
View ArticleI’m Baaaacccckkkk!
Can I come back? I miss it here. Will you come back? Can we get back together 😉 I felt like I was too busy, too distracted and depleted. I lost momentum and focus and thought maybe blogging was a...
View ArticleUnraveled
I know it. I just can’t admit it. I keep getting to the end of row 5 and I fumble to finish just right. I haven’t taken the time to locate the exact spot to place my last stitch. I settle for a couple...
View ArticleNew Year
What’s so good about the New Year?! Only EVERYTHING. It’s like ‘Hope’ in a bottle. ‘Hope In A Bottle’ is not what caused my party-goers to fall down the front stairs, doze off on the couch or take a...
View ArticleThe Voice In My Head
To The Voice in My Head, Please excuse me while I attempt to discern whether you are friend or foe. I need to know if you are intuition revealing to me the secrets to my success or a distant cousin of...
View ArticleBlog Envy & Love
I am a people watcher in every sense of that term. Whatever your lifestyle – I’m interested. I especially like to watch people that live nothing like me. I love to peak into someone else’s corner of...
View ArticleQueen of the World
I was once Queen of the World. You don’t think so?! Check out the entries on this very blog from September, 2010 or July 2012 or June 2014. Farms and experiments, day trips and tiny, adorable children...
View ArticleBits of Bliss
I don’t get a lot of downtime and I am rarely alone. Quite frankly, I don’t often sit down and silence is a strange and very unusual sound for me. I do not have significant blocks of time to myself. I...
View ArticleCrocheting is Hard
I love crocheting. I think about patterns and yarns when I am washing the dishes and stitches and multiples when I am folding laundry. I have dreamt about crocheting. I don’t know exactly how this...
View ArticleOff The Rails
There is a roller coaster at the pier at Seaside Heights in which you hop into a little car and a chain pulls you to the top of the metal structure with clicking and clacking noises. It perches you at...
View ArticleWhat I Know For Sure
Oprah always asks her Super Soul Sunday guests what they know for sure. I have not decided yet whether I will plan ahead or just go with the moment when she asks me. Right this minute, I know these...
View ArticleThis Is Not The End
There are more days of summer in September than there are in June, but people will easily accept June as ‘summer’ and September 1 as the heralding of fall. Not so my friends and I forbid you to imbibe...
View ArticleHappy, Shiny Day
There is always a summer day that stands out to me – The Happy, Shiny Day. There is a quality to the day that makes it quintessentially summer, special and a little sacred. This very blog chronicles...
View ArticleDon’t Blog About Other People’s Kids
If you are a grown adult who has never used a blog to demean, slander and gossip about someone else’s teenager, feel free to move on from this post. Read this blog or this blog, Crochet an octopus for...
View ArticleDriving & Life Lessons
I hand Gavin the keys to the car every chance I get. Yesterday was a long and winding, hour-long drive including highways, tricky corners and traffic circles. I’ve taken him out to drive in the dark...
View Article#NaNoWriMo2017
I am participating in a writing project called NaNoWriMo. That cute little word, say it – it’s cute – stands for National Novel Writing Month. Not only do I have a novel idea, I have about 14 of them....
View ArticleWinter Solstice
It seems that I have complained about my relationship with the ‘Hallmark-type-Christmas-Holiday’ here and here, so there is no need to beat a dead horse. Instead, let’s talk about something that I...
View ArticleWhat’s So Great About The New Year?
Only everything! If you don’t like New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, you are doing it all wrong. I concede that you don’t have to do it my way – but mark the event in SOME WAY! If you like it quiet, I...
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