And The Year’s Reading Began Well: January Books

And so it begins. . . A new Reading Journal for 2021, a small notebook received at a Creative Mornings event, back when those were still in person (sigh). . . I used one of…

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Of Moods and Journals and Discerning Worth . . . You Know, the little questions . . .

This morning, I’ve been knitting the head of a small toy mouse. I’ve done a 45-minute workout, following a “Circuit” my trainer sent me electronically, and I’ve got a bowl of sourdough autolysing in the…

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Sketch Journal Time — with Tea!

 Like many of you these days, from what I read, I’m regularly confronting a hurdle (which occasionally takes on the imaginary proportions of a very tall, very solid wall) of anxiety or sadness verging on…

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Painting Our Way into a (Quiet Reading) Corner

Can you believe that we’re coming up to five years of city life? Truly, it seems just yesterday — and/but also another lifetime — that I was in my February garden and on the beach…

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Of Books and Leather Skirts — What? It’s An Eclectic Lifestyle Blog

Yay for me! Patting myself on the shoulder here because I managed to post my 2020 Reading Listover on my book blog before January was done. I had debated folding the two blogs together, but…

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