With only ten days left until Christmas, we are down to the wire. I finished nearly all of my shopping yesterday by picking up just a few last minute gifts for our boys. The stockings now need filling. I’m pretty much on schedule, or so I thought until things started missing their delivery dates by…
What have I worked on this week? I am a reflective thinker. Perhaps, too much so. I find that sometimes all my thinking stalls my actions and prevents forward movement. I get caught up in questions such as, what should I do now? What would be most productive? Should I stop editing and put those…
I was going to save this post for Silent Sunday but decided not to wait. I don’t know what else to write about today, and furthermore, there is a story here besides the beauty of the lights. For 26 years Riverside Park in La Crosse Wisconsin has been lit up by millions of tiny Christmas…
Today, I’m finishing the decorations on our third Christmas tree. I got out the decorations early last week, and early is the key word here. I usually do not decorate until the second week in December. In truth, some years were later than that. But, whether we were here or vacationing for the holiday, as…
My husband makes a daily stop at one of our convenience stores. He’s gotten to know the staff – not really by stopping but because he was the company physician for a while. And, one of our sons worked at this older branch of the store for slightly over a year. One of the store…
What’s with the color purple lately? This is a question I’ve been pondering. It all started when I decided to let my hair go gray at the beginning of the pandemic. By May, I knew that I needed to try and ease the transition between my colored hair and my naturally dark brunette hair that…
This week is cruising along! Today, again, I’ve gotten so much accomplished. A trip to the post office was needed to mail out both jewelry and masks to buyers. I’ve made jewelry since 2009 and fabric face masks since – well, you know when, this April. In addition, I needed to mail thirty new pieces…
If you are reading this post, it is not what you think it’s about if you just read the title. I woke up this morning feeling that I was being dragged down….down into a black hole. Although I’ve spun around the edge of this hole before, very often around holiday time, I don’t think I’ve…
Several years ago, when I had writer’s circle, the students tried their hand at writing the several types of poems during our month long unit which ran from mid-February to mid-March. My favorites were the color poems and the haiku. I found poetry, using the forms below, helped the young student (third grade) to learn…