Materfamilias Writes

Introducing: A Few New Friends . . .

Introducing: A Few New Friends . . .

I’ve been spending time with old friends and new . . . and making a few as well.

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Birthdays, Mothers, Lilacs, Remembered

Birthdays, Mothers, Lilacs, Remembered

Lilacs carry a childhood memory for me, as they did for my mother. And each May, as they bloom around Mother’s Day and my birthday, the memories stir again, evoked by fragrance, by tiny blossoms clustered against the sky.

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More Solo-Travel Notes (and Two Sketches) from Lisbon

More Solo-Travel Notes (and Two Sketches) from Lisbon

A few more images from my Lisbon hotel AND a peek in my travel sketch journal.

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More (than) Mending

More (than) Mending

A Three-Part Post: Some Recommendations of TV series and films; a recent mending project; and some thoughts on being 80 from an artist’s journal. Click through to read more.

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Mending and Thinking. . . and maybe a bit of Mending My Thinking

Mending and Thinking. . . and maybe a bit of Mending My Thinking

I’ve been doing some mending . . . and thinking about Old Things (including myself, eventually) and Creativity and Survival . . . also some wise words from a few younger peeps. . . Click through to read more and perhaps join the conversation

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.