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Spring! Dress, Garden, Snailmail — and a Few Good Books!

Spring! Dress, Garden, Snailmail — and a Few Good Books!

 If you’re not spending all your time in the garden these Spring days (or raking up leaves and chopping firewood, if you’re in the other hemisphere), today’s post comprises my report on the books I…

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March-ing through my Reading Journal: A Month’s Worth of Books

March-ing through my Reading Journal: A Month’s Worth of Books

March Reading: 17. Siberian Haiku  Jurge Vile; Illustrator, Lina Itagaki; Translator, Jura Avizienis. Graphic novel; Autofiction; historical fiction; YA/children’s literature; 18. The Alice Network, Kate Quinn. Historical fiction; Spy novel; romance; strong female protagonist; WWII 19.…

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Five (no, Six; okay, Seven) Things I’m Doing This Sunny Spring Monday . . .

Five (no, Six; okay, Seven) Things I’m Doing This Sunny Spring Monday . . .

Not sure where the anxiety’s coming from, but it’s really messing with my sleep these nights, and this morning I’m relying on some tried-and-true calming activities — formulaic but still productive enough to quell the…

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Bringing the Outdoors In . . . In to my Sketch Journal, that is. . .

Bringing the Outdoors In . . . In to my Sketch Journal, that is. . .

  I told you I’d be back soon to share a couple of pages from my sketchbook, and here I am. . .  I’ve been getting outside more often lately, thanks in part to the…

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Buona Pasquetta — Just Another Manic Pandemic Easter Monday

Buona Pasquetta — Just Another <DEL> Manic </DEL> Pandemic Easter Monday

 I don’t know about you, but Easter was weird for me, for the second year in a row (and that we’re numbering weird Easters now is also, you know, weird. Unsettling. Turns out that I…

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