by Beth Dunn on 25 February 2012
Downton Abbey fever has the world held tight in its elegantly gloved hands, it seems. It’s kind of insane. Folks who normally wouldn’t be caught dead setting their DVRs to PBS on a Sunday night are suddenly ravenous for the dirty details of Lady Mary’s sex life (hint: she has one), Lady Edith’s love life (not [...]
by Beth Dunn on 21 February 2012
It should come as a surprise to nobody that I am deeply into ritual. Ritual of any kind, really. Daily, weekly, annual, sublunar. Doesn’t matter. I’m just a total sucker for it all. So things like Lent, even though I’m not really fully signed on with the whole church project, as it were, are pretty [...]
by Beth Dunn on 13 February 2012
One of the benefits of living in a house that has been lived in by several generations of your family is that there are ghosts lurking around just about every corner. What, you don’t count that as a benefit? I’m not talking about those unsettling moments when my cat wakes up from a dead sleep [...]
by Beth Dunn on 5 February 2012
I am the opposite of a packrat. I am a thrower out of things. This tendency has only been amplified now that I live in a tiny house by the sea. Tiny houses have very little room for stuff. So it always surprises me to discover the things that I somehow manage to hold on [...]