Baby Steps
I have the tendency to look forward to all the things I am hoping will happen. This means I exist in a state of anticipation rather than just sitting back and enjoying the good things that come to me. I […]
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Nostalgia or something like that
It’s the day before the 1st of December.Tomorrow the kids get their advent calendars (the German kind with chocolates behind each window, of course).I almost bought a box of Xmas crackers this morning. I was supposed to be buying photo […]
High School Sucked!
At some point in high school- perhaps for all of the 10th grade- I was often called ‘Joey Ramone’. People on the street would yell at me as I slunk along trying to blend into the shadows.One might conceivably take […]
The Boy With The Purple Hair
Yesterday the family and I took a little trip to Annapolis Royale on the north shore of Nova Scotia. It’s a 1 and 1/2 hour drive straight across the mainland, through woodland and past signs warning drivers to look out […]
Buzzzzzzzyyyyyyyy!
I apologize profusely for not blogging for a couple of weeks.It’s been a combination of sudden frenetic busyness in my world and a lack of very much to say. And I’ve been working on my WIP.Yes, the same old one […]
50 new followers= 50 embarrassing admissions
I wouldn’t say precisely that I am on the hunt for new blog followers. I like the ones I have just fine. We are familiar with each other. We are loyal. We enjoy each others companyBUTI do have a new […]
Books. Shelves. My new Office.
I have never met a writer who does not read voraciously. If you have, I have no desire to hear of it. I have an innate distrust and suspicion of anyone who does not have books in their home. It […]
Pottering
Where did July go?*looks around and peers over shoulder confusedly*I just spent the last three weeks eitherA) sleeping on the floor and spending my days trying to recover feeling in my hands ORB) unpacking about 100 dusty boxes ORC) finding […]
10 Very Nice Things About My New Hometown
1) There is fog and a foghorn. It sounds like a mournful bull lost in the mist. 2) Everyone has a cottage garden that looks wild and natural with lupines, poppies and mallow self-seeding and spilling out onto the sidewalk. […]
Hardwood Floors
Hardwood floors are wonderful. I had them in my old house, I have them now. They are cool in the summer and warm and glowing in the winter. They feel good against your bare feet. However they are not nice […]