Continuing with my themes of finding spring in sprightly dress (since it’s not showing up in the form of sunshine) as well as boldly combining patterns as inspired by Karen, Une Femme, and those academically…
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I was wrong about the bronchitis — Pater insisted I visit a drop-in clinic on Saturday, and the perfunctory-doesn’t-begin-to-describe-it doctor diagnosed a sinus infection. Today’s my third day on antibiotics and I’m actually able to…
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Some more garden cheer, in the form of the wonderfully fragrant mahonia japonica. Other cheerful things: The reading I organized went very well. Although I wish even more hockey and poetry fans could have heard…
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‘member I was being all chipper yesterday, going on about the richness of life, blah, blah, sincere blah? Well, I’m still aiming at that, but omg, it’s tough when I keep sneezing and coughing and…
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That’s green enough for St. Patrick’s day, don’t you think? That’s a ribena sanguinea ‘White Icicles’ bud getting ready to burst into bloom. I was curious to see when it did that last year, and…
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