My Light-Bulb Moment of the Week. . . Of Revelations and Recalibrations

 You may laugh at me, but here’s a “true confession”: I had a light-bulb moment the other day, in which I realized that “Hey, I’m doing a lot, verging on too much.”  The various activities…

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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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What a Week — A De-Briefing Potpourri

  Whew! What a week this has been! Tuesday, I was so scrambled that I dialled into my Wednesday night Italian class — a few minutes early, as usual — and found myself the only…

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Quick Getaway, With Kayaks (and a bit of Fear that snuck into my packing). . .

We were away most of this last week — barely two hours driving, another 40 minutes on a ferry, and we were at the edge of an inlet, our backs against a treed rocky hillside,…

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Le Piccole Cose . . . It’s The Little Things, in Life, in Romance, in OOTDs . . .

A twist, today, in my little series on What I Wore, What I Listened To, and What I Saw while walking. . .  I didn’t wear this outfit for walking, at least not any further…

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