I'm now a member of the Etsy.com community, a website devoted to handmade art and art supplies. I thought this would be a great way to m...

Unrequited plant love, that is. Pollen. Great swirling yellow-green clouds of pine pollen that gets into, and onto, everything. The bane of ...

I'm pleased to report The Great Sourdough Debacle is at an end. I went back to the directions that came with the starter, and found I...

For Christmas, MarbleMan gave me a bit of sourdough starter from a 250 year-old batch he'd found through a catalog. Mmmmmmmm. The firs...

Spring has officially Sprung here in the South. The days are getting longer and warmer, the apple and plum trees are in full flower while t...

I am in the midst of a perfect moment in a perfect day. The day started out with a visit from my Ya-ya's - the closest friends I have ev...

OK, now that I have had some time to reflect over the past four months, I realize I've done way more work than I thought! In late Octob...

After a year of puppysitting our sick dog, I finally snapped and declared I'm taking back my life to a small degree. The only way the po...

I have just finished watching The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio. I came away with two thoughts: 1) Julianne Moore is one heck of an actres...

Things have been really quiet around here the past couple of months. We've been nursing a sick dog, and kept homebound since the Boston...

Friday was travel day. Do you know that Orbitz calls you 3 hours before your flight's due to take off?!?!? Great service... except if y...

An inspirational tale of the Amazing Shrinking Woman (again) Last Thanksgiving I had terrible back pain - I mean, the flat in bed, gorked ...

The Desert Tour: A One Act Event Scene I: The Hummer Imagine a dusty Hummer, originally bright shiny yellow. Now knock the doors off and re...

It's been quite a while since my last post, so there is a lot of catching up to do! I can't believe I haven't written anything ...

Now that we've had the Eureka Boss SmartVac 4870 ($140) for half a year, we've got more feedback. And down below, I explain some ha...

I've taken a break from everything the past few weeks to get life in order. The weather Sprung great in late May (past tense of Spri...

I have been dyeing for two days now, and it feels GREAT! Yesterday I boiled up one big pot of water outside, about enough to get six bucke...

After my last post, I went back to the orthopedist. She took one look at my elbow and told me I needed another cortisone injection and some...

Well, shoot! There I was a couple of weeks ago, feeling pretty good about life. Then, BAM! I tripped over the dog and hurt my elbow again...

For the past two weeks I have been "noodling with my doodling", as promised in my last post! I haven't started sketching my ne...