April 9, 2019

  • A tale of two rooms (part three)

    (Part one; part two) So, remember a couple of weeks ago when I was quoted in the paper, talking about the 3/50 Project? My friend Juanita saw it, and called me at the shop – she didn’t know about the shop; in fact, I hadn’t seen Juanita in years. She owns a ceramic shop out

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  • A tale of two rooms (part two)

    Continued from here… One of the bedrooms in our house is a glorified Cat Room. It’s also the Paperback Science Fiction and Hardcover Biography room (shut up, I come from a family of librarians and writers) and doesn’t see a lot of action other than that.When we have people over, or need to quarantine a

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  • A tale of two rooms (part one)

    This may shock some of my more recent readers, but there’s something crafty and creative that I like to do more than knitting. I KNOW. Many many years ago (back when Sesame Street was in single digit age), G-ma taught me how to do ceramics. And up until five or six years ago, I did

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  • Unca Joe has been set free!

    If you want the great news, skip right to the last one! Wednesday – Joe was in the best shape he’s been since September 19, the day this whole thing started. He walked across the room without help, got himself in and out of bed several times, sat up for a long time, ate well,

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  • QOTW – 2009/11/09

    And the Question of the Week is… What are the most important things you learned from your father? My answer is after the cut…

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  • The roads we’ve driven

    (Originally posted June 2, 2005) The roads we’ve driven All the stories we could tell If it all blows up and goes to hell I wish that we could sit upon the bed in some hotel And listen to the stories we could tell -Jimmy Buffet He glanced at the sleeping child in the passenger

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