Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
I start the day by sharing with Amoeba whatever weird dream he just woke me from. This morning I must have been thinking of all the housework in front of me, including washing the bedding, because my dream was about Amoeba helping me. He’d strung the garden hose through the [...]
The Word Count is still 1001. I had it all worked out. I sliced up my time and fit it into neat little mental compartments. I said to myself, “This compartment is unalterable” (thus alerting Murphy — he of Murphy’s Law — that I needed a visit.) So, yesterday when [...]
Blogging eats time. I need to reclassify some of the time I feed to blogging and call it my writing time. From now on, starting the moment I hit “post” on this blog, I cannot write a blog post or comment on anybody’s site until I have written at least [...]
Today I washed all the wet stuff. Removed sand from places sand shouldn’t be. Unpackd. Tidied. Cleaned. Shopped. Cooked. Cleaned some more. Visited (I hope) all my blog buddies and left them comments on one or two of their posts, and edited my photos, but now I am far too [...]
The grown-ups wanted us dead. I have proof. Winton Elementary School in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho was built on the edge of a cliff. There was a 35-foot embankment not ten yards from the back door where I lined up every morning before fourth grade. There was no fence. There was [...]