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Day 6 of the 12 Days of Christmas – I am a domestic goddess

I have found the cure for my acute aversion to housework: Downton Abbey. And my magical little Kindle. Oh, and it seems that 12 days off don’t hurt either. I thought I’d gone mad when I ironed the sheets yesterday after a top-to-bottom scrub-out of my bedroom. But today I would have hardly recognized myself, […]

Day 3 of the 12 days of Christmas

As with any good project with sloth as its central theme, I have only gotten around to documenting my Twelve Days of Christmas today, on its third day. With carefully put-together personal days and vacation days, I made it so that I won’t have to work again until 2014 – a full 12 days of […]

I’m dreaming of a soggy Christmas

Yesterday, in a climate-change-produced Christmas miracle, it was 71 degrees in New Jersey. I went for a hike in short sleeves with my son and my dogs at a time of year normally more suited for parkas and mittens. Stateline Lookout was practically deserted, despite the fact that if it had been April and that […]

2013: My year in review… with pictures!

I have never been a Christmas card-sender. But I’ve gotten so many lovely cards and “year in review” letters throughout the years and this year in particular that I figured I’d do my version of it, here where I pour so many of my thoughts. 2013 began in the best possible way for me: I […]

Ducking Free Speech

About a month ago I went to my local CVS and found myself walking past a display of cups with the faces of really homely bearded men on them. They looked something like a biker gang, totally incongruously placed next to a display of singing Christmas elves. This was my introduction to Duck Dynasty. You […]