A Little Rome Gallery-Going from my post-Christmas Armchair . . .

I hope you all found some joy in these last few festive days, and I hope you may find some peace, as well, as the year winds down and we ready ourselves for a Restart.…

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Merry Christmas on a (just hectic enough) Christmas Eve

Found this treasure when sorting through drawers last week: a Nativity scene drawn by my daughter when she was 5. Such fun to show it to her daughter!   7:36 AM on Christmas Eve. One…

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‘Twas the Week before Christmas

Thursday: yoga class (that Ommmm seems a too distant memory now!), a bank appointment, and two hours’ travel to the city. Plans for collapsing with books in our apartment were scuttled by a desperate call…

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Throw-back Thursday, in a (Christmas) Season of Looking Back while Being Busy!!

How’s that for a title? Unwieldy but Descriptive? It does, at least, tell you what’s up with me these days… For example, Yesterday, I -ran my 8 kilometres in the morning (playing with a different…

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Christmas Tree Joys, Memories, and Kondo-culling

I spent a lovely few hours with my friend Alison in her studio last week, building up the layers to make Christmas images like the one above. I’d missed the last class in our Watercolours…

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