Recently, Dinah Dog and I had the opportunity to spend the night at a house on the beach in Seaside, Oregon. It was a beautiful little refurbished cottage originally built in the 1950s that has been magnificently updated to include
Tricia Didn’t Win. Bummer. :(
As promised in my last blog post, I’m letting you all know that, as luck would have it, Tricia didn’t win the brand new sewing machine grand prize at the quilt shop hop the two of us recently completed. In
A’Quilting We Will Go! Wait. Was That a Winged Dragon We Just Passed?
I love to sew. I love everything about sewing – the fabrics, the threads, the little tools like the seam ripper and seam gauge, the machine and all its stitches, the ironing, the scissors. I’ve been sewing stuff together since
Taking Care of Yourself When You Don’t Feel Good
“I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.” — Audre Lorde I’ve spent a chunk of this summer not feeling very good, too sick to do much
Wow, Did I Get on the Wrong Boat or What?!
I’m so happy to be back in the Land of the Living! Although I don’t remember purchasing tickets, for the past couple of weeks, I’ve apparently been visiting The Dark Side, where my body took off on its own “Deciding
Inspiration is Everywhere These Days
I really enjoy reading inspiring stories about inspiring people who are doing inspiring things. Lately, these inspirations have been popping up right and left, seemingly everywhere all at once! I want to share a few with you; maybe these stories
It’s Definitely a Long Story…
I opened my email this morning to find an update from Seth Godin’s blog entitled It’s a Long Story with this very short story as the entire message: Isn’t it always? Actually, the long stories are the good ones. About