I want to make sweeping statements like, “the first time you lose someone you love, it teaches you how to lose everyone else” or “the first time you lose someone you love, you learn what to do and not do the next time.” But I don’t necessarily mean “everyone” – …
To remind myself about what I did earlier this year, so that I can blog about it, I’m going through my pictures. I use my camera a lot – for pictures of my pets, for pictures of products or works-in-progress for HaldeCraft, for pictures of whatever color I’ve recently put …
I am firmly in Team Mask, and if you’re not, that’s fine, but I don’t really give a shit why you’re not and I won’t argue about it with you. This post is for people who are in the market for masks, or maybe more masks, I don’t judge. I …
I was in our driveway yesterday, heading to the post office, when something caught my eye. Something just didn’t look right…. You know how you see something all the time and somehow some time it just looks different and you can’t put your finger on it….? It took me a …
I spent most of yesterday shirking work and being social (shhhh, don’t tell my boss). I started off meeting a long-time online friend for lunch – we’ve only met in person once before, when she stayed at my house to take the bar exam – and yet online, we’ve known …
I have… four pairs of socks on the needles right now. And yet I’m contemplating buying more needles, so I can start on another new pair of socks. Maybe dial the startitus back a bit, eh? But then that does kind of describe most things I do. I am really, …
I went to see Rocketman with a friend yesterday, and y’all, it was amazing. I mean, the movie itself was beautiful and uplifting and magical… but the experience of going to the movie wasn’t bad, either, and how often can you say that?! I know I’m years behind the rest …
A million years ago, when I was in theater school, the last play I did was Sartre’s “No Exit”. (I played Inès , if you’re curious and have some knowledge of the play.) There’s a famous, if often misunderstood, line from that play that I love to this day… “Hell …
It may surprise you to learn that I’m not independently wealthy. I KNOW. How can a woman who makes baby head mugs and writes serialized science fiction not be RAKING IN THE DOUGH?! It’s true. You don’t choose this way of life to get rich quick. Because I ask people …
I can not thank Sharon enough for telling me about the podcast, The Dream. I’ve long been fascinated by pyramid sch— uh, multi-level marketing and this podcast is really well put together and fascinating. If you, too, are curious not just about “what is an MLM” but also… why or …
Sharon and Ginny and I finished Babylon 5 a few weeks ago, and literally days before the last episode, it’s like Amazon Prime heard our cries because they advertised that Farscape would be streaming soon. So we were slide right into another one of our favorite shows. We watch first …
I’m starting to think that instead of a good example, I serve as a horrible warning. But just look at these adorable new tumblers at Chopstix. JUST LOOK AT THEM. Yesterday was a Good Day; hanging out with old friends, day-drinking, celebrating the birthday of my heart’s sister. After all …
While the workaholic part of me always feels a little guilty, there’s nothing I like better than sneaking away from work for part of a day and having lunch with friends. I swear there was also food involved. Sometimes I joke about it but there is a little grain of …
A little over a year ago, a coffee shop opened up in our little town. Now, y’all who live in a city where there are Starbucks on every corner might not find this too exciting… but for us, it was like a breath of fresh caffeine-scented air. Since they opened, …
After a quick family breakfast, it was off to Baltimore. Why Baltimore? Well, first off, it’s my hometown. I have ties… including much family in a cemetery, and y’all know by know this trip is all about the dead folks. Also, there’s Poe’s gravesite, which I have been to and …
Hooooo boy. I’ve written this post like six times today, y’all. Even I want to tell myself to shut up already, haha, even though this is kind of a really real subject. Let me see if I can delete the chaff and just leave you with what I was really …
Y’all. THE ENTIRE REASON FOR THIS AMAZEBALLS ROAD TRIP. Ten or eleven years ago, Sharon and I went to the Florida Fiber-In for the first time. Everyone was really friendly, but we didn’t really feel there were too many people our age there. That is, until we saw Beth. Sharon …
WHEN LAST WE LEFT OUR INTREPID HEROINES…. I know, I know, who can remember back that far, right?! Talk about a long anticipation for a story finish. So, just to recap… Stage One. We stopped off at Peach World (it’s been two years, yes, I did finish that peach moonshine …
Do you have siblings? I don’t. I’m an only child (not for lack of my parents trying, mom, I’m sorry about your loss). I don’t know what it’s like to have someone connected to you like that. Someone who grew up in the same house and knows the same people …
When I used to work in the document production department at an Engineering company, we had an unofficial slogan (ok, we had lots of them, but this is about a particular one). When people ran in and said, “I need this right away! It’s got lots of markups! Don’t miss …
Right now, in this family (and in that I count my close circle of friends, because I make no less a lifetime commitment to them than I do to actual relatives) there are three people with torn rotator cuffs, one person with cancer who’s just started treatment, one person with …
You guys! YOU GUYS! This weekend was SO MUCH FREAKING FUN!!!! While I always get stressed the week before Open House, worrying that I don’t have everything ready, when I woke up Saturday morning it felt like Christmas. The whole day was filled with friends and laughter and Crafting! Then …
And now I know Spanish Harlem are not just pretty words to say I thought I knew But now I know that rose trees never grow In New York City Another reason I’ve been kind of sad lately is that I just finished watching Feud: Bette and Joan. It didn’t …
So, Tuesday night, about the time Tim and I were watching our last TV show of the evening, I was like, “Holy crap, what is that NOISE???”…. we paused the TV and listened to the longest rumble of thunder I’ve ever heard. It must have gone on straight for about …
