Minor Triumphs and Tribulations — Must They Always Travel in Tandem?!

My intention was to post today about my lovely weekend visit with Daughter #3 and our visit to the spa. Instead, I spent the day writing a conference paper proposal. I’d decided earlier that I…

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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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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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Autumn comes before Winter, Yes it does . . .

Although I don’t want to dwell on it too much, because it impinges on others’ privacy, I’ve been grappling with some intense, if occasional, sadness lately, sadness that seems to hit regularly on weekends when…

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Leather and Tough Spots and Treats, Oh Yes!

Duchesse’s post yesterday has me figuring how I can stop by Danier’s to check out their leather Ts and sheath dress. We’ll be so close this weeekend, but we’re only over ’til Sunday morning and…

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