Stitching, Pre-Travel to Post-Travel . . .

I don’t know about you, but it takes me almost as long to recover my regular daily rhythm and activities AFTER travelling as it did to plan and prepare for the trip. But a little bear has got me back to my knitting, at least. And reminded me that I still haven’t shown you another Little Creature that swam off my needles before we left mid-April.

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Of Gifts, Friendship, Snail Mail, and SerendipiTea

 As I alluded to, partially and briefly,  in an earlier post, I’ve been thinking lately about the ways that our capitalist economy conditions us to evaluate our activities, the use of our time, our “production,”…

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Not Quite Done With the Holidays. . . .

First post of 2020 — Hello! Happy New Year! Really, though, if I tell you that we’ve put away the tree and the lights, but the Christmas crèche is still on the dresser in the…

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Friday — Of Surprises and Confessions. . .

So. . . I promised to tell you about two more belated-birthday surprises I enjoyed last week. The first was a two-part gift, something I’ve hankered after for years, decades even, but somehow could never…

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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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