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The Plants Are Adjusting
I do not do a lot of gardening. We have a grand total of four outdoor planters that I tend to during the warmer months of the year–two in a shady spot and two in a sunny spot. There’s also… Continue reading
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Moving From Substack to WordPress, My Experience
As I sit here looking out at the backyard, the grass is looking very green thanks to this month getting off to a pretty soggy start. Can those May flowers be far behind? Weather-wise the weekend was somewhat dreary, but… Continue reading
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That Time I Made My Mom Drive Me to Every* Mall in North Jersey to Find a Pair of Shoes
(*This is maybe a slight exaggeration, but seriously only slight.) A couple of weeks ago I wrote about being a nearly life-long glasses-wearer. In it I happened to mention the ginormous glasses I had during my middle school years that… Continue reading
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Robber Barons
My Bluesky feed is all authors listing how many of their books were stolen to feed Mark Zuckerberg’s AI monster. Five of my books were stolen says one author, 7 of mine says another. All my books were stolen. All… Continue reading
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How I See Things
As this email hits your inbox, I am likely sitting in an eye doctor’s waiting room. There’s nothing wrong, just a regular checkup. As someone who has worn glasses nearly her whole life, I’ve spent a lot of hours in… Continue reading
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Here Comes the Sun
We’ve been enjoying some spring weather here, and so naturally I thought of this snowy picture I took many moons ago of my cat Alci (short for Alcibiades) when the two of us lived in a house in the Poconos.… Continue reading
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Detours
I spent a few hours on Monday driving a rented van through parts of three counties and did a very small amount of heavy lifting, but by the end of the day it felt like I had run a marathon.… Continue reading
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Pictures or it Didn't Happen
They have crocuses and daffodils for sale at our local farm store. I saw them the other day when I stopped in to pick up some ingredients for what the kids call girl dinner—lettuce and salad dressing and also some… Continue reading
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An Early Reader
I found the above photo of a vintage Holly Hobbie record player on the internet. I owned this same record player as a child and used it often. Somewhere along the line the blue plastic gramophone horn broke off of… Continue reading
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Finding Our Way
If you’ve been paying any attention to the news this week, then you know that Google Maps changed the name of a body of water for users accessing their site from within the United States. US users will now see… Continue reading
Creativity and Contentment 