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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2020 Reading List (subtitle: The Year Redeemed Itself, just a bit. . . .)

2020 will be remembered by most of us as a year of many challenges, but primarily as The Year of Covid-19, of lockdowns, of physical distancing and mask-wearing and cancelled travel plans. Not being able…

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Comfort Food that Brings the Spicy Heat — A Quick and Satisfying Recipe, Mmmmm

I’m almost finished my 2020 Books Read post, but couldn’t resist sharing a quick, healthy, satisfying meal with you, one that I made yesterday when there seemed to be “nothing for lunch.” . . I…

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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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