Hello, void. I hope you are well. I am ok. Not making the best choices always. But never giving up. A few weeks ago I was at my parents’ for dinner and my mom showed me this cool embroidery project in a quilting magazine. You melt crayons on fabric and then backstitch around the image.Continue reading “All about that embroidery”
Author Archives: ghrn
Touchstones
Today was hard. I felt easily bruised, easily offended. One of those days where being a grown up and choosing not to take my toys and go home was hard. I have a pit of anxiety that I can’t quite place. And I am oh so hungry. I have learned in my baby-steps meditation practiceContinue reading “Touchstones”
Mocktails and inventory
There was this brief moment when I was perfectly together. At least that was my memory. At the time I am sure I felt like I had many things to improve. But I was healthy (thinner) and had almost no debt. I remember wearing a crisp white shirt and fixing seltzer water with lots ofContinue reading “Mocktails and inventory”
Things fall apart
Today is hard. Not six weeks ago I felt I had the world on a string. Was I too smug? Was I too sure? Had I bought into quick fixes and tricks? Probably and always. I am sinking. Away from myself, my family, my goals. But work is good. 🙂 No, really it is. TheContinue reading “Things fall apart”
I wish I wrote songs
“I wanted to be a writer, that’s all. I wanted to write about it all. Everything that happens in a moment. The way the flowers looked when you carried them in your arms. This towel, how it smells, how it feels, this thread. All our feelings, yours and mine. The history of it, who we onceContinue reading “I wish I wrote songs”
Flowers in the snow
We have gone to Colorado, specifically Estes Park, 3 years in a row now. It feels like our place, our vacation. Hopefully the kids will feel that way too as they get older and remember summers. One of my favorite parts of the vacation is going up the mountain from warm air to cold air.Continue reading “Flowers in the snow”
deadlifts and dermabrasion
Small joys can amount to a happy life… the feel of good deadlifts with real weight coworkers that make work joy a challenging and rewarding job a squeaky clean face finding my voice in situations where it was once lost having experience to share finding other humans who will expose their soft spots an adorableContinue reading “deadlifts and dermabrasion”
Vacation
Hello… I am short on words today, probably because I was too free with words in my last post. Yesterday I showed my soul, today I am going to show my camera roll. A sampling of pictures from our vacation… the aerial tram, hiking Lily Lake (and ignoring the admonition that no pets were allowed),Continue reading “Vacation”
Gone
Driving up the mountain from Boulder to Estes Park. Jeff Tweedy is serenading me. I see a plane push up into the air making a fast vertical line of smoke. Just as quickly, the plane dives, creates another line of smoke as it plummets to the ground and then pulls up right before crashing intoContinue reading “Gone”
pneumonia and baby quilts
A bit of a ditch on the road of life the last couple of weeks. I was hospitalized with pneumonia and a tummy infection and crud and stuff. Prior to spending a night in the hospital, my longest and worst night was an overnight train ride from the sticks of Romania to the capital. PeeContinue reading “pneumonia and baby quilts”
weeknight quilting 