Finding Time to Read

A few weeks ago now, Hope left me this comment, ending with a question for me: As a mom to two young kids (4 and 2), I’ve only just begun getting back into regular reading…

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Eating in Yountville

Bored as I am with being convalescent and house-bound, it occurs to me that this would be the perfect time to dip back into vacation memories. Sadly, while I take notes when we travel to…

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Power Outage on the Island . . .

Our power winked out several times this morning, waiting for several minutes before it announced its return in a flurry of appliance squawks, beeps, and blinking lights. I’m half-poised now for it to switch off…

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Minette Walters, Patricia Cornwell . . .

After a busy week finishing off my essay followed by my weekend’s Half Marathon run, I’m now nursing something sinusitis-bronchitis-y, and one of the best methods for doing that, besides sleep, is reading, right? (Well,…

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Not for Want of a Nail — One More Running Post

Note that dirty line running from the sole of my runner along the side of my shoe across that central stretch of mesh — and the puncture mark on the sole below it — where…

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Copyright

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