Bettering – weeknight quilting

Summer Rules

I am nearing the first full year of living in my house. I have experienced one of every day here. A birthday, anniversary, Christmas, Thanksgiving, leaves falling, leaves budding. Each day is new. And each day here still feels like a miracle. But many days are scary. The reality of a real, grown up mortgageContinue reading “Summer Rules”

Week 1

The first week of a new year is a hopeful thing. Especially this year. Hope of emerging from a pandemic after a year of collective isolation, grief, fear. The ticking over of the calendar doesn’t solve the problems, but it does punctuate that we might be on the downhill of this sustained total suckiness mountainContinue reading “Week 1”

new year, same me

I am sitting in my home office / studio where I do all the things except cook and sleep. I take endless online calls here during the work week. One stacking on top of another – each with fear pockets – the pocket when I try to recall whether the person I am meeting withContinue reading “new year, same me”

Starting…

This week I was stopped in my tracks. I sat in front of my dinner crying the tears of the defeated. Silent, head bent, no relief. Crying when there is nothing left to do. Work is unrelenting. Every day is the same misery. I never thought I would get sick of being at home. IContinue reading “Starting…”

Marchenings

Yesterday, I posted about some crafty sewing progress in March. Today is a very brief look at some other March happenings. Marchenings, if you will. BLOND! (and it is ok that I wrote “blond” instead of “blonde”, per this.) Most of my teens and 20s I spent with blond hair. And suddenly one night IContinue reading “Marchenings”

splurge!

I have felt the joy of growing as a person the last month. After I got over a wretched bout of flu/strep throat/major fatigue, I felt like a new person. More energy – especially more creative energy. I wanted to make and do more. In addition, I am developing some great new eating habits –Continue reading “splurge!”

In love and in 2018!

Hello – New year! I love new years. I love how bare the house looks after taking down Christmas decorations. I love new lists, new goals, big plans, optimism. A new year is a fresh sheet of paper. For better or worse, I fill my pieces of paper with the same doodles every time. IContinue reading “In love and in 2018!”

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”

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”

Essential

As long as I can remember, I have been enchanted by the idea of a Renaissance man – a person who has the time, the money, the fortitude to become an expert in science and art and literature. That is my compulsion. Here is what I want to accomplish in the next year… speak a foreignContinue reading “Essential”