2017-11-21 22:58
Can I have a show of hands:
How many of you do all your prep AND most of your cooking for Thanksgiving before Thursday, and just have to shove the turkey in the oven and make the gravy?
Do y… Read More
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We all have stories to tell. Mine are of the beautiful necessities: paint, paper, and the weight of a red, ripe pomegranate in my hand.
2017-10-21 02:18
I just came home from the hospital today. On Tuesday, two days after my son’s wedding – by plan – I had the lower lobe of my right lung removed for primary lung cancer. It… Read More
2017-08-08 15:55
Thank you to all of you who wished me well upon my return to blogging! Your “welcome backs” were like warm hugs from old friends – which you all are!
I am replying t… Read More
2017-07-18 11:48
I had grand plans to redesign the blog, pay for a higher level of Typepad, learn how to code it myself, and certainly get a new header, all before I posted my first Official Retiremen… Read More
2017-07-18 11:48
I had grand plans to redesign the blog, pay for a higher level of Typepad, learn how to code it myself, and certainly get a new header, all before I posted my first Official Retiremen… Read More
2017-01-02 00:09
Oh, these long but short dark-days of new winter!
Too much rich food and drink, dazzled by strings of colored lights and the bling of sequins and velvet, and the nostalgia… Read More
2016-12-16 13:44
Then watch this fabulous bit of a British take on The Twelve Days of Christmas. Narrated by the wonderful Phoebe Waller-Bridge and sourced by me through the marvelous blog, The Women's… Read More
2016-12-14 19:31
This is a muddy attempt at a wreath.
I don't have much.
Been inside this house for ten days. What I haven't been is driving all over New York to conduct depositions and… Read More
2016-12-02 02:10
Tomorrow my arthritic knee will be replaced with a titanium marvel.
It's not exactly the start to the festive tidings I had imagined for the year. When I look at the alternative to being hom… Read More
2016-11-21 20:47
Hey, guess what:
November 2nd was my - wait for it - 13th blogaversary!
Here's a link to not the very first post, but a post that I remember writing and loving those lo… Read More
2016-11-15 15:05
Gratuitous adorable baby pic to get your attention.
I plan to post on Mondays - or rather, I plan to do the following:
I am about to launch a newsletter. Isn… Read More
2016-10-31 15:00
I know.
Let’s just pretend I never left.
I’m home and nursing a bad knee. I was already scheduled for knee replacement in early December when I exacerbated the knee a th… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
When I was young, I used to worry about grey roots, saggy jowls, those batwings that suddenly hang from upper arms, and whether my left ankle would swell to twice it's size like my mother's… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
It's never easy, a return, that is. Whether you are landing at JFK in a snowstorm after a week in Mexico or going back to work after an illness, you just have to plunge in. So here I am, at… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
has been suspended while: work ack! commuting ack! reports reports reports ack! winter yuck! dirty dirty dirty snow yuck! dirty drifts hardened into dirty ice bergs in the yard yuck! too muc… Read More
2015-09-20 17:26
Morning
till night
we live on the porch.
So many of you responded so compassionately for the Facebook request for… Read More
2015-09-16 03:28
This usually doesn't happen to me so soon into the change of seasons. The heat waves across the blacktopped street have barely stopped shimmering and the apples are still ripen… Read More
2015-08-08 03:33
Here in the northeast United States, we are at the crest of summer. There are very hot and humid days, rainstorms thick with thunder and lightening, and evenings that thrum with crickets lik… Read More
2015-08-02 10:00
One of two darling straw hats that I only wear on Cape Cod and the ubiquitous over-sized denim shirt.
In the spirit of full disclosure, the title of this post.
Let's fac… Read More
2015-07-31 10:37
After a few weeks of very hot and humid weather, I walked outside from work last night to a huge thunderstorm deluge. My cute red patent leather loafers were almost floa… Read More
2015-07-12 15:31
Nauset Light
Sitting on the side porch this morning side by side with Mr. Pom, coffee in hand, and noticing that the cicadas have begun their mid summer whirring. I want to scold them… Read More
2015-07-06 02:08
I haven't taken a two week vacation in several years.
It feels like eternity.
Halfway through, we have had a change of guests, cycling from nieces to aunties.
What have I done fo… Read More
2015-06-27 14:38
I was so happy, happy, happy to hear from so many of my readers for the last post. Your compliments about the new blog design (ah, shucks, it not like I asked for it but I did) were sweet… Read More
2015-06-11 21:52
I decided to return to the world of blogging with not a splash but a flutter of angel wings as I blithely told you of my renewed artistic passion, vision, and spirit and my idealized embrace… Read More
2015-06-03 11:07
I took a ten day spring vacation, which I highly recommend, and have come back with renewed desire to simplify my life and surroundings and make room for whom and what I love.
… Read More
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