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I am so certain I’m incapable of doing stuff because…well, I am. I don’t have the time or the money for the materials. Or I don’t know how I would even start. Etc. I’m on Pinterest doing my occasional poke around and pin stuff and I happen on a site and a list of the…
I truly love how the feeling of the day changes as the light begins to move within the familiar spaces of a solid house. The shadows that are cast dance with the sudden breezes, the wind a dance instructor to the leaf ballet in the street. There is a feeling of action and stillness all…
Before Mark and I moved to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, we lived in the quaint neighborhood of Hampden in Baltimore City. The area was built around a waterway called the Jones Falls and when you catch certain sights, you can feel the history of the town built on the hills around the work of…
I had the privilege of attending a creative meetup in Baltimore at the end of August courtesy of Jennifer Cooper of Classic Play and Kara Johnson, creator of a blog called A Creative Reality. After meeting at a blogging conference,these two dynamic women conceived and created the Cone Collective, a group for the benefit of…
Yes, it’s true. This is the year, and weekend, of my 47th birthday!The fact that I was able to birth a baby this past year makes me feel a little younger. Although my body, having run right out of the happy pregnancy hormones called Relaxin, is feeling that much older. No more relaxin’ and maxin’….
Before I began to craft my blog in 2011, I’d like to tell you I was an avid follower of many other fabulous bloggers. But I wasn’t. I happened into this in a lurching sideways manner. Over these past couple years though, I’ve read and followed a fair number of them. The best of which…
From those that don’t blog, I get this bewildered look when I tell them I write a blog. A what? What do you do exactly? Why? How do you make money doing that? All great questions I certainly had as well before I started to write a blog. Ever notice how the vantage point changes…
It’s OK to not know what you’re doing. To not know how to do it perfectly. How it will work out or turn out. Or even not to know how start. You assume EVERYONE must know but you. They don’t. They were busy thinking you knew. And rather than look a fool in front of…
What you do for your bosses, husband, and children they’ll come to expect. I coined this expression when I used to clean houses for a living. I was kind enough to wash and redistribute towels in a client’s bathroom. And the next time I cleaned for her, she was indignant that I’d not done this…
I have a little song that I made up for Fiona. And every time I sing it, she stops and smiles because she recognizes it. Sometimes I use it to calm her down when she’s headed for a fussy jag and I need another minute or two to finish what I am, soon to be…
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I fetched my coffee and returned to my bedroom, clean sheets, windows 🪟 open with...
Opportunity to sit inside the Purrmuda Triangle 😻? Yes please ❣️
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This gorgeous human just turn 13. We named her Fiona and she deserves a tribute...
