Tag Archives: blogging

Don’t go believing everything social media says

Posted on June 2, 2018 by

Please, dear readers, never let your thoughts convince you that Cousin Lindsey or Friend Derek or Acquaintance Daniella has a better life than you. Forget their sixteen pictures of babies, tropical vacations, or happy interludes. Remember that Social Media only … Continue reading →

Posted in June 2018 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 43 Comments

Happy Mother’s Day weekend (random blogging musings)

Posted on May 11, 2018 by

I am having so much trouble writing a blog these days.  There’s either nothing to say, or too much to say. It doesn’t feel easy and carefree in ways that it used to be. It appears I may quit blogging … Continue reading →

Posted in May 2018 | Tagged , , , , , | 31 Comments

Finding our true voices

Posted on January 19, 2018 by

The other morning Pam (Roughwighting) and I yakked on an early morning phone date.  We’ve connected with our voices on the telephone on and off for a couple of years now.  We talk about creativity, writing, mothers, dreaming, jobs, books … Continue reading →

Posted in January 2018 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 38 Comments

Hi ho silver & let them eat caviar (Cowboy Caviar, that is!)

Posted on January 18, 2018 by

Dear friends,  I can’t help myself.  Barry and I stumbled upon this post from 2010 yesterday morning at 6:30 and totally cracked up.  (Well, he may have left for work, rolling his eyes!)  I insisted upon reading it aloud to … Continue reading →

Posted in January 2018 | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 27 Comments

Twelve points on the wall of possibility

Posted on January 2, 2018 by

 I may be over-doing it blogging lately, but, gosh, it can be fun. Some day, perhaps, the writing will cease again–but for now, it’s alive here. It can be especially fun when it’s cold.  Something to do, you know, in … Continue reading →

Posted in January 2018 | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 36 Comments

Our Little House in the Big Woods

Posted on December 15, 2017 by

    I just received an official notice.  It’s been nine years since I first started blogging about our Little House in the Big Woods. Nine years ago, on a snowy winter day in 2008, the idea arose to spend … Continue reading →

Posted in December 2017 | Tagged , , , , , , , | 30 Comments

Lock your cars in late August or beware…

Posted on November 27, 2017 by

Sometimes I love this twilight hour of a late November afternoon.  Darkness approaches; the gray overcast sky nestles among the bones of tree branches.  Dinner beckons in the mind’s recesses:  what shall we have? Tonight it’s zucchini fritters laced with … Continue reading →

Posted in November 2017 | Tagged , , , , , , , | 27 Comments