Category Archives: REALITY

Yesterday I stopped to visit my father’s lover, up on Silver Hill. My mother is where she would have wanted to rest forever, as she often told us because she would see across the valley to her house and watch … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I didn’t really feel up to writing much today, especially about today, but I feel much better now and can almost laugh about it. There’s so much to carry around in your head sometimes, and it’s always the most depressing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Among the many other things I did today instead of blog–like put in seven hours in the shop, finalize a paper, and tidy up the house a bit–was to prepare an impromptu meal for friends and spend a relaxed few … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So after J. comes home from work looking adorable as he shyly hands me my Friday night rose, he kisses me hello and sniffs the air. “What’s for supper?” he inquires. “Turkey Pot Pie,” I reply. It’s not near done, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There’s a feel of elegance in this New England November morning. Like being in the dressing room in the time before the start of a Paris fashion show. The models are stripped of their finery and stand there naked, quiet, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Oh joy! I called my dad to find out what he may need–bread, milk, etc.–and he doesn’t really need anything, was sounding just fine and vegging out, napping and reading, and talked me out of going down there today! Of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Strange, strange morning sky today; multilayered textures, smooth plane of space with every form of cloud a part of the morning traffic jam north to Hartford. The lowest, a ragged factory-smoke colored curl is also the slowest moving. And colors…at … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have earned this day. A day of just reading—required reading, but to me, just about any reading is a joy and grudgingly done only when I could be writing instead. Only a few little errands to run, a phone … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“Susan, come quick!” I run to the kitchen and look out the window where J. is pointing out to the backyard. Three bluebirds are flitting between bathing in the shallow puddled water on the pool cover, perching on the bare … Continue reading → Continue reading →

While I am not a believer in horoscopes primarily because I don’t believe there are only twelve types of people in this world, in checking my e-mail early this morning (while, of course, I was on the computer working on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Thank you for the sympathy and understanding from those of you who commented on my predicament of time management posted below–I realize that it’s a problem for so many people these days. I have made a dent in my frameshop … Continue reading → Continue reading →

How ironic. The moment I decide that I have been too selfish with my time and give it back to the people and things I have neglected, it is taken from me with a vengeance. Control has been ripped from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

According to M & M’s Silly Science Fact, “A giraffe’s tongue is almost two feet long.” I will do my best not to let this invade my thoughts all day. Continue reading →