An Illustrated Story for you on Christmas Eve

 When I was growing up, my family always opened our gifts on Christmas Eve, after dinner and bathtime and admonition to stay upstairs until Santa Claus had made his early stop and was jingling a…

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Post-Weekend Stock-Taking, List-Making . . . and A Poem for you. . .

 I’ll tell you about this journal page soon, but first, WOW! What a busy weekend! A very good weekend, but a busy one, and today’s going to be a Recovery Monday.  Most of the Monday…

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I Left my Voice in San Francisco (But I Brought Home Some Sketches)

 We flew home from San Francisco Sunday afternoon, my cold staking more territory with each passing hour, my laryngitis not aided one jot by the drying air of the plane. Exhausted as I was by…

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Those Sweaters Again — Mother, Daughter, Photo-Bomber. . . .

 I promised to get you a Mother-Daughter Sweater Selfie, and I’m keeping my promise today! Megan texted the other day: “Get your sweater on. We’re doing the Selfies.” Of course, she had lots of energy,…

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Mother and Daughter and What We Wore . . . Handknit Style

 How about a Mom and Daughter in Matching Handknit Sweaters post? Sadly, I wasn’t smart enough quickly enough to get a photo with both of us wearing the sweaters at the same time (something we…

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