Materfamilias Writes

Monday Miscellany — Random Happy Things. . .

Monday Miscellany — Random Happy Things. . .

Top of To-Do List This Morning: Writing an email to my dental office expressing some dissatisfaction and hoping for some resolution. . .  Took me over an hour (so much deleting and re-wording, with some…

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(Slow?) Fashion Report Card; 2020, My Year of the Dress . . .

(Slow?) Fashion Report Card; 2020, My Year of the Dress . . .

Second half of January, past time to report on my garment purchases for 2020.  My friends Duchesse and  Sue have already posted theirs, each with some musings about slow fashion and fast fashion and the…

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Just Showing Up . . . With Words and Sketches (and even OOTD photos ;-)

Just Showing Up . . . With Words and Sketches (and even OOTD photos ;-)

 You might be surprised to know that even after 13 years of blogging, I can be paralysed here at the keyboard. It’s not “writer’s block” in the sense of having nothing to say. Rather, while…

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A Bit of Random Cheer, 3rd Monday in Advent. . .

A Bit of Random Cheer, 3rd Monday in Advent. . .

Odds and Ends this morning, and then I’m off to meet my sister for a walk in the rain — walking together outdoors is the only socializing we’re currently permitted here, outside of our immediate…

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An Advent of Adjustment — Christmas Preparations in the Time of Covid. . .

An Advent of Adjustment — Christmas Preparations in the Time of Covid. . .

This is another of those Posts Interrupted (like this one, posted several weeks ago).  I’m not sure why this pattern seems to be trending here lately, procrastination and interruption and determination to complete jostling for…

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