Melissa Wiley's Blog
January 6, 2010
Gee, I wonder why.
Blurry photo. Couldn't be helped. Baby tugging on arm, etc. This fellow was perched atop our back fence about three feet from the bird feeder. Later, Scott saw him plummet out of the sky into our bushes. Sorry, little sparrows.
January 4, 2010
Because I have email addresses for both my married name and my pen name, I wound up with two Google Reader accounts, which of course got to be unwieldy and silly. So I merged them.
"RBJ" stands for "Rainbow Jane," which is a kind of quilt. So that makes, yes, FIVE handcrafts-related folders between two accounts. What is wrong with me??
Imagine if I stopped reading crafty blogs—with all that extra time I bet I could make something, like, say, a quilt.
January 3, 2010
Rilla comes hobbling in, using a wiffle ball bat for a cane.
"Look, Mommy, I'm playing I'm a grandma!"
Me: "Why, hello there, Grandma."
Rilla: "Mommy. I'm not playing that any more."
January 2, 2010
January 1, 2010
"For some weeks now I have been engaged in dispersing the contents of this apartment, trying to persuade hundreds of inanimate objects to scatter and leave me alone. It is not a simple matter."
—"Good-bye to Forty-eighth Street,"
Essays of E. B. White, page one
Can you say, 'had me at hello'?
Gosh I read some good stuff in 2009.
I've been tinkering with this post for days and am just going to give up and post it, despite some screwy links. I'll fix it later, maybe. Or I might be too busy reading.
Fiction I especially enjoyed:
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (notes)
• The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (notes)
• When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (notes)
• The Sherwood Ring
• The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (notes)
• Lost by...
December 31, 2009
How To Make Chicken Tikka Masala Recipe – I love this dish so passionately that it really is time I learn to make it myself.
