Materfamilias Writes

Covid-19 Reading. . . Seven Titles To Distract, if not Comfort you. . . .

Covid-19 Reading. . . Seven Titles To Distract, if not Comfort you. . . .

Most of us are finding more time to read these days, although I’m hearing from many who find it tough to concentrate on their books, from others who only want to read “gentle” stories.  I,…

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Buona Pasquetta — (Easter) Monday Reflections. . . .

Buona Pasquetta — (Easter) Monday Reflections. . . .

 Buona Pasquetta! I’ve just learned that this is Italian for wishing you a Good/Happy Easter Monday (little Easter, to be more literal in my translation). . .  There has been some languishing here (a word…

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In The Pink, Rose-Coloured Spectacles, La Vie en Rose. . . .

In The Pink, Rose-Coloured Spectacles, La Vie en Rose. . . .

I had an important dentist appointment today, made back in January when we didn’t know yet that our world was changing. The appointment was to check my teeth alignment after fifteen months of Invisalign. I…

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Time and Skunk Cabbage Wait for No WoMan (or Covid, for that matter)

Time and Skunk Cabbage Wait for No WoMan (or Covid, for that matter)

Those of us fortunate enough to be #StayingHome have lost many or most or all of the markers that distinguish one day from another. . . And some of us are finding the time that…

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I Had a Meltdown. . . and Then I Recovered. . . How’re You Doing?

I Had a Meltdown. . . and Then I Recovered. . . How’re You Doing?

First of all, here is the Mason Bee House in our condo-terrace “garden”. . . above, a photo from March 19th, and below, as it was yesterday afternoon.  Three of the tubes were completely empty…

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