This year for Christmas, I’ve been fascinated with decorations. I want to look at them, photograph them, and just enjoy them. I was browsing the Williams-Sonoma catalog and found a lovely set of Christmas plates and started drooling. I wanted those plates! It didn’t make sense. We don’t have parties or entertain. We go to…
We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemist’s eye to notice. – Jacob Nordby / Author, Speaker, Coach We had a wonderful time visiting the kids in Atlanta. My daughter is doing well, sprouting along in her 7th month of pregnancy.…
This week’s theme for Six Word Friday is “drive“. For me: I would rather drive than fly. Which is particularly appropriate since I am now in Atlanta for the long weekend. YES! I am visiting my daughter while my favorite boy toy stays home with the boys. It’s not worth flying to Georgia from Virginia. …
I mentioned earlier that I was taking a class on writing personal essays from Sheila Bender. The feedback has been very good, both from Sheila and from my fellow classmates. A great deal of effort has gone into describing what each of us is doing right and what can use improvement. The first essay was…
For the second year, our daughter has been able to travel to Virginia and spend some time with us for the Easter holiday. We’ve had fun shopping at the local nursery and working on the yard. I did put in a garden and will post about that later. These pictures are from this morning –…
In my final nod to Women’s History Month, I wanted to share stories from my maternal grandmother’s life. I’ve enjoyed sharing two other heroes – Jane Addams and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, but our lives are influenced by more by the women directly in our lives. My maternal grandmother had a hard life. She was orphaned at…
To My Husband – Our love has changed and evolved so much over the years, from the giddiness of high school to the fast pace of raising a child and establishing careers. Now we’re empty nesters and more in love than ever before. But it’s a more settled love, with the knowledge we are working together and doing…
Today’s theme for Six Word Friday is “chat”. I had some fun with it – six lines of six words! Chat is such a simple word Neighbors become friends; friends become family Offenses lessen when affections are built. Grandmothers chat over the back fence Children hear and later become mothers And repeat the stories to next…
Heidi, over at Good Life, had a recent post on how hard the holidays can be for people. Certainly for me, the dark side of my emotions are not exempt from the holiday blues. There’s the feeling that I’m not normal enough. I love Christmas decorations, but won’t make the effort to put up anything beyond minimal. …
Living The Seasons 