Night into Day, Dark into Light . . .

So many of you offered solace or insight at my recent post disclosing a patch of sadness I’ve been going through as a late-middle-aged mother and daughter. I’m happy to note that the breach in…

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It Never Rains but it Pours!

What is this odd image? I wondered as well, this morning, as I checked out the ceiling above the drips in our TV room. The taped green plastic that’s pulled away from the ceiling is…

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Editing (and) What I Wore

You may be right: perhaps this skirt is too extravagant to wear to class. But you know that “Fake it ’til You Make it” mantra? Sometimes a bold cheery exterior can pull along a recalcitrant…

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Working to the Light

Still working to find the happy. And it’s here, in small doses, if I look hard. Light on the horizon and all that. Evidence that even in winter there will be life — these Mahonia…

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Weekend Good Stuff

Of course, it’s notall sadness all weekend around here. Friday night, for example, I was very pleased to arrive home from work and find these little beauties sitting on a plate: Basil Ricotta Gnocchi. To…

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