Sometimes Monday | 2.19.24
Is for processing the weekends thoughts and ideas! You all provided an abundance of food for thought with your comments last week...thank you so much for your input! Yes, I have been thinking LOTS of thoughts about that Great Cabled Disaster of a Sweater... starting...
An Authenticity Manifesto | February 2023
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet. I hinted Friday that this month turned into a delightful adventure. But it certainly did not start out that way!...
RIFFing to bid February Adieu | 2.24.23
This week has been a Weather Roller Coaster... we have had temps in the 70's and the 30's. Let me just say that this mornings 30° felt bitterly cold after yesterday's 72° and I was so glad that I had mitts tucked in the pockets of my coat for Sherman's morning...
Unraveled Wednesday | 2.22.23
Greetings Unravelers. It is a day of many things; it's the last Wednesday the month and it is Ash Wednesday which brings return of "Fish Fry Season" (at least in my corner of the world!) And it is, of course, a day to share what we are making and what the books have...
Sometimes Monday | 2.20.23
Is a continuation of the weekend. I thought I'd share some of the things that have made my weekend extra wonderful! First, I saw this on IG and I had a batch of focaccia in the fridge... so on Saturday I did a bit of a riff on it. One russet potato, a couple of...
Mid-Winter Friday Finds | 2.17.23
I don't know about you, but I have found since I turned the "50's" corner, I have struggled mightily each year with an ever worsening case of the dreaded Dry Winter Skin! Usually, by mid-February, there is not enough moisturizer in North America to make a difference....
A Gathering of Poetry | 2.16.23
I read the poem I am sharing today earlier in the month and I did not know then how much these words would help me as the month progressed. I have memorized these words – it was simple to do so – and they have become my litany of hope as February has had some daunting...