I’ve sat down to write a Happy New Decade or Where the Last Ten Years of My Life Have Gone post several times now, and with every draft I found myself tallying up the bits and pieces of my past ten years in ever-lengthening lists. I want to account for everything, to tot it all [...]
One is short, but wears tall grey suede heels that seem to be falling off her feet. Those feet are the start of long bare legs beneath a charcoal grey miniskirt. Arms covered by a light black slouchy cardigan are crossed in front of a purple tank top. A pouty, almost surly face is framed [...]
We went out tonight, after dinner. Bundled up the little ones and strapped them into their car seats and drove to St. Andrew’s-Welsley United Church downtown. We came for the singing, for the massed voices and the shining silver trumpet and the thundering pipe organ in the vaulted ceiling. Well, that was what I came [...]
Inspired by Kirsten’s link to the Softies for Mirabel project, I decided to set about making my first softie. Well, my second really, as I made a Waldorf style doll for Bea’s first birthday. But that doll was made from a kit, with detailed instructions. I was sailing off into relatively uncharted territory here by [...]
In this seemingly endless stream of days, each one so much alike the other that they blur into one continuous stream of morning, mid-day, afternoon, evening, night, it seems that my ability to experience the profoundly different, life-altering, shocking, inebriating and even intellectually challenging aspects of life have been eliminated. Every day is just like [...]
