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February 22, 2016
Monday Morning
The house is dark and silent save for the hum of the furnace cutting in now and then. It’s comforting, the security of a furnace warming the home for the day. I stand at the bedroom window and throw back the curtains. The pre-dawn view catches me by surprise, yet again, and I stand in […]
February 8, 2016
Lentil Soup
I took advantage of the gift of quiet and snowy days in early January to pull out some cookbooks I collected many years ago. One of my treasured favourites is the Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen. It contains a recipe for lentil soup that is described as gentle. It is, indeed, simple and gentle . […]
February 4, 2016
Foraging February
Before we retired, sometimes at the end of a busy week I declared it to be Foraging Friday. That meant Gerry and I would find something to eat on our own and no meal would be prepared for supper. It was a relaxing end to what was often a busy and stress-filled week. This month […]
January 28, 2016
Bitter or Better. Honest or Dishonest. Adoptee or Not.
A few years ago I wrote a small article for an online adoption publication called No Angry Adoptees Here. I took a lot of flack for that article and it ended up being one of the most commented upon pieces in the publication. I wrote from the perspective of an adoptee choosing to follow a […]
January 14, 2016
Lather Up!
About a hundred years ago (well, perhaps more like thirty-five or so) I decided I wanted to learn how to make soap from scratch. As with most things I wanted to learn about back then I checked out books from the library, studied, and set out a plan. My first step was to render fat. […]
January 11, 2016
Glass. Light. White. Airy.
Glass, light, shades of white, and airy. That was the photography prompt I chose to work on one day last week. It seemed natural that I would grab a few mason jars to use for the glass part of the prompt. It’s no secret that I’ve got a bit of a love affair with mason […]
January 8, 2016
A Rocking Chair
Yesterday I continued my effort to catch up on my Be Still – Fifty Two assignments. This one called for using a simple subject–like a chair, back lighting, and shooting from different perspectives. I knew immediately what I was going to use for my subject. It’s just taken me a while to get back to […]
January 6, 2016
Be Still Vignette
I’m so very far behind on the assignments for the Be Still – Fifty Two class but I’m determined to catch up. Today, I had some time to practice and I played around with different things for one of the assignments. This one called for us to shoot a dark and moody vignette and to […]
January 5, 2016
Vertigo
On Boxing Day I woke up to find that the room was spinning. I had slept fitfully Christmas night and thought perhaps it was a lack of sleep that was causing the vertigo. I rested for a few minutes, the vertigo passed, and we carried on. Later that day it returned and I caught myself […]
January 2, 2016
2015 Reading List
It’s that time of year when there are lists upon lists about every thing imaginable. Last year, I chose to get on board by posting a list of all of the books I read during 2014. It’s fun to think back on some of the great reads I enjoyed, and it’s helpful to have such […]
