From the monthly archives:
I hope everyone else had a holiday weekend as mellow and nice as mine was. It’s amazing how peaceful life can be when you give in to your basic misanthropic feelings, pull the shades, and turn off the phone. My husband and I are both happiest at home, lounging around and variously reading or playing [...]
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Last minute shopping. Why?! It started off very well, going to a local lavender farm that has a gift shop with nifty gifts you can buy on the honor system, which was pretty much the perfect shopping environment. Just me, by myself, in a lovely old shed redolent of lavender, picking out little soaps and [...]
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The Grinch has apparently stolen all the Christmas trees, this time before they even got into people’s houses, hung and strung and jammed underneath with presents. Good thing I don’t have room for a tree in my wee cottage anyway. I usually do this, wait until the last week before Christmas to decorate. It isn’t [...]
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Last week I spent a couple of pleasant evenings working on a scarf for a friend of mine, made out of soft, furry purple angora-blend yarn and some silver iridescent eyelash yarn. Sounds like a fright, you say? Correct. So I frogged it just now, entertaining the kittens to no end — sparkly eyelash yarn [...]
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I gave myself an early Christmas present yesterday and bought a membership at the Y. I’ve been dying to start swimming laps again, something I did a bit obsessively in college. I am generally obsessive about all that I do, really. And the thing that was killing me was that I had a relatively new [...]
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