Today is a quiet day with no shopping or wrapping or cooking…a day to think about how nice it was to be with our family for Christmas and sit by the fire, share a meal. Christmas Eve was the start of the fiesta… Gifts were not the central event for most of us (except […]
Years ago I made a little painting (now in the collection of the Salem Public Library) called “Everything, Everything”…all the thoughts, all the feelings, all the activity of a life. And now in this season of my own life I guess that’s the way I think. The categories are loosening, the sense of the whole […]
So the other week my cell phone told me one day that I was spending an average of 4 hours a day looking at it. I was horrified. So this holiday Roger and I were trying to live in the moment…to savor the tastes, the people, the holiday ambience, the love, the food…and guess what…? […]
I’ve written many times about “the Snail Blog”(here, and here, and here)… Ellen’s response to blogging as a Luddite committed to keeping in touch…she has sent me a post card every day for 3000 days (that is 8.22 YEARS for non-math majors). 3000 (and 3001) arrived today: Imagine. All those cards, all those stamps (though […]
Well we’re ALL trying to “live in the moment”…to “lessen our screen time”…to enjoy our lives as we live them…yes? Yes. That precludes writing about these moments, but I continue to gather the images as if I WERE writing about them, and now I’m way behind. So how about trying to catch up with just […]
Some years, around my birthday, I’m cut free from my moorings…just floating. The new year direction hasn’t kicked in…it isn’t orderly yet, anything could happen. So I review the messages… Clean the studio… review the day: look at completed work: start something new… on line shopping?? (new lights) visit friends… (Kay Worthington’s “anatomy of an […]
I published this on my birthday in 2009, but I still think it tells my story so let’s go again!! Today is my birthday and I’ve attained a certain age. I have plans, things to do, places to go. But today I’m looking back. (I tried to cut my own bangs–oops.) For a few years […]
And we’re ready around here…I got three small trees and thought I’d decorate them with the left over bits and pieces that pile up when you’re making quilts…and two of them look pretty festive… I never got around to number 3… but the gifts are all wrapped… and now there is time to sit by […]
December, the month for cleaning studios to get ready for the new year. Right after New Year’s I swear I can feel the light increasing every single day…until it’s a little bit light at 5:00 and on we go. New Year, new work, new energy. So today I started by tidying up the sewing cottage…what […]
Some years ago now my brother Bruce got two recipes from NPR for cranberry sauce. That was his “specialty”…and though we haven’t shared Thanksgiving with them in quite a few years, this Garlicky Cranberry Chutney is a mainstay…this is Susan Stamberg’s favorite she says…originally from Madhur Jaffrey’s cookbook “East/West Menus for Family and Friends (Harper […]
On The Way 