Musings

The simplest thing I could think of. Did anyone watch Oprah yesterday?  She focused her show on the theme of Doing Without.  Two families were chosen to participate in the program, and the deal was, they had to give up all their electronic gadgets for a week.  No cell phones, no iPods, no computers, no…

  When did laundry stop being fun? When I was a little girl, I used to love helping Grandma Agnes with the wash.  There was a comforting and predictable sequence to Laundry Day.  We started early in the morning, and devoted a good part of the day to complete the task.  There was a big tall…

This is why I live in California.  Spring comes in February. The harbinger of spring is the sighting of the first plum blossoms, and I spied mine this week.  I don't care what Puxatony Phil had to say about how many more weeks of winter we have looming ahead.  The true sign of better times…

  istockphoto A few of you friends picked up on the fact that I called myself "a lady of leisure" in a recent post.  It is true.  The job that I had so wished for and was hired to do, turned out to be quite a different experience than I had expected. I know I…

      Well, I had some very interesting comments on the subject of "Tie Offs", including some from a couple of heavy hitters in the Quilting World.  I appreciate all of what so many of you had to say.  It seems that the consensus is that leaving tie offs is not all that typical.  I certainly…

  I can feel the end of summer in the air.  Every September, usually just as the kids are returning to school, we have a heat wave.  I remember just having moved to California from Michigan and starting 7th grade at a new junior high.  The first day of school it was 107 degrees.  We…

The shock of receiving half of what I was expecting in my first paycheck has gotten me thinking.  How am I going to pay these darn bills?  I do not want any calls from Bob in India, my Nemesis.  He is such a doggone pest. So aside from going into more debt in order to…

Hello Friends.  Thank you for all your good wishes to me on the occasion of my first week at my new job.  And also,  thank you for your patience with my lack of blogging.  I am getting into my new routine, and will carve out niches for both quilting and blogging on a regular basis.…

I have had a white couch, that white couch in the photo above, for almost 15 years, by my calculation.  I picked it out myself and was pleased with the elegant touch it gave my living room.  I paid for it on monthly installments, and felt very grown up indeed.  It has a creamy damask…

istockphoto I had a little too much fun this weekend.  My youngest sister had a graduation party for my nephew Scott on Sunday.  He had just recently graduated from high school, and his family was justifiably proud of his accomplishment.  It was a terrific party.  The place was full of charming young people, both sides of…