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My family sometimes does a yarn swap for Christmas. Everyone puts in a skein of yarn in a brown bag. Then the bags are mixed up. Then you draw a name and then you take turns taking a brown bag … Continue reading →

This past weekend, I went to a shop called Nantucket Looms. The first floor has lots of home furnishings and at the back of the shop is a selection of woven items such as blankets, throws, towels, scarves, and shawls. … Continue reading →

Yesterday I started reading Anna Marie McLemore’s magical realism book Wild Beauty and today I finished it.  The point of view oscillates between a girl named Estrella and a boy named Fel. The girl is one of a generation of five … Continue reading →

When grading all the papers and exams, averaging grades, writing final comments, attending faculty meetings, tidying up the classroom, and bringing books home is finally done, then a teacher can smile and have a glass of wine on the porch … Continue reading →

This past Sunday, I finally got a chance to start tidying up the garden (wilderness). It has been sorely neglected between the end of the school year with all the grading, meetings, and stuff and our middle son’s graduation. Plants … Continue reading →

Today before driving to work, I cut this peony from the bushes lining the front walk. It was a tight ball with coral petals edges peaking out from the green guard leaves. At work, it went in a square bottle … Continue reading →