In the house these days, everywhere I look, there are bits of things: gifts, wrapping paper, half eaten cookies, random socks, yarn…in every crevice and covering every surface. Which, under most circumstances, drives me round-the-bend crazy.
Except that, when I crumpled into bed after another full day today, I realized that the bag of Lush Bath [...]

Received a gift via email today that came at just the right time. I have been trying to regain the ground I ‘lost’ on my to-do list (lost while I was down with the flu), by running, running and running some more.
A gentle little reminder, this poem, which I have heard before both in its [...]

After years of glorious hiatus, I have gotten the flu.
I can only describe how I am feeling is that it is as though someone has been beating me with a rubber mallet whilst I sleep 18 hours a day, waking sore, miserable, and unable to concentrate. Thank goodness for television, I have missed you, old [...]

Road trip to Blue Mountain. Singing along to ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’, terribly. Poor ears! Most of it was instrumental.

Life has become much busier in the last few weeks.
Added to the endless to-do list that I carry from day to day, is my very own: ‘Things That Shalt be Done to Have a Perfect Holiday Season’ list. From what I can gather, most people have a version of this list, perhaps not a physical, [...]