Welcome to the land of the living dead. Too much work in too short a time. Yikes. I have hit the wall – at least for tonight – and am ready to go stare at the television set with no care for what I am watching. For future reference, please remind me not to combine…
Category: Writing as a Discipline
Shopping for a Tiny Apartment Kitchen
‘The house is quiet. It is 11:30 pm. Shadows fall across the floors in 2 rooms I can see from my vantage point in a chair near the gas heater in the staircase room of our Victorian. I don’t have one word to say that I think anyone would find interesting. But here I am…
5 Star Recipe for Orange Cranberry Pecan Muffins
I love collecting recipes and this one came from a recipe box I bought at an estate sale several years ago. The box is made up of two long file drawers in a small oak cabinet and each drawer is crammed full of the owner’s favorite recipes clipped from newspapers or magazines, along with hand-written…
Three 21-Year-Olds on a Road Trip
Our daughter Rachael and her two friends, Natasha and Keara, decided last week to take a road trip from Los Angeles to our home in Sherman, Texas, which is 60 miles north of Dallas. They arrived today after 22 hours of driving spread over 2 1/2 days. The girls, all college seniors, arrived tired, but…
IKEA and A Change in the Look of Texas
We made the 46 mile trek today to IKEA in Frisco, Texas. We are creating a small apartment in the upstairs of our Victorian and needed a bed frame, plus other sundry items. I was struck by two things while in that North Dallas megastore. One was the number of children there – every couple…
From the Mouths of Dogs…
Cordelia and Sammie wish you a very happy New Year with hopes that 2013 will bring you prosperity in all aspects of your life. We could all learn from these two: 1) Sleep a lot 2) Eat with gusto 3) Play as often as you can 4) Snuggle close in bed 5) Defend those you…
Great Success
This is a quick message to say that our open house was a great success. We had a steady stream of visitors from 2 to 8 and everyone seemed excited to see the progress on our house. We were delighted to be among our friends, celebrating the historic preservation of this beautiful Victorian. With that…
Tomorrow is Our Open House!
It is 1:10 am and I am still up. Not what I had planned, but I had a wonderful evening with dear friends here in Sherman, talking and laughing and sharing the happy and tough times in our lives. Well worth staying up this late to experience. Tomorrow is our open house and the house…
The End of a Busy Day
I am sitting near the gas heater in our Victorian, my eye lids so heavy it requires a great effort to keep them open. It is 1:12 am. Today, we have dusted, swept, vacuumed, mopped, unloaded furniture from the U-Haul we brought, and rearranged a room or two. Plus, we had the pleasure of a…
Almost There!
We are on the last leg of our trip to Texas. It’s 11:37 and we’re about 45 minutes from Sherman. We left yesterday at 1 pm Pacific time and we’ll arrive about 12:15 Central Time. We stopped last night at around midnight and were up and driving by 7:30 this morning. It’s a respectably long…
20 Minutes a Day 