My Mama sent me this poem today that she found here and it's so sweet that I just had to share :-)

Motherhood
by Joyce Ellen

one quarter of a century…
that's how long
I have had the
privilege of...
...mothering this sweet child
he was my first born
it was a new experience
i rocked the job
in the beginning
maybe even
thru the toddler years
once he reached ( Read more... )

 My husband got the official contract giving him tenure at Case Western Reserve University today! *HAPPY DANCE!* 8-D  I am very proud of m'boy! :-D

Not to be melodramatic or panicky or anything, BUUUUT It's the End of the World As I Know It!!

My sewing chair just died.

I've had it for over a decade!! Wherever am I going to find a replacement that I'm happy to sit in for 12+ hour at a time?!?!? (and that won't hurt my butt or my back and will encourage decent posture so I can persevere for 12  ( Read more... )

 I am SOOOOOOO frustrated. I'm working on a paper for YWU'd and so far I've had to re-write it from my hand-written notes FIVE times because MS Word (in various incarnations, including the non-MS Open Office version) keeps crashing or otherwise corrupting the paper. (Including corrupting the back-up versions! *bewildered shock*) The latest ( Read more... )

We had a power serge last night (and blackout). Now my scanner won't turn on. *Waaahhhhhhhh ( Read more... )

My husband's book is available for pre-order on Amazon!!!

here

I am so proud of him I could burst. :-D

I ran into an interesting factoid yesterday (I think) while listening to The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner: The centers of the brain in charge of WANT are not the same, nor even connected to the centers of the brain involved in LIKE.

Mind-boggling isn’t it?

I think it explains addiction pretty well. Also my book, fabric, and vintage clothing ( Read more... )

Today, both of these are portraits of a 34-year old woman; I think I look happier then she does.   ;-)


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I’ve been listening to the Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan for the last couple weeks. It is an interesting book, although very “chatty journalist” in style (not generally a style I favor). It’s making me think about my food a lot more then I ever had before. This is not necessarily comfortable.

When “organic” food first started getting press, ( Read more... )

I am stepping down from being Cleftlands’ seneschal in a week. I am not sure I actually liked being seneschal, however I think it’s going to take me awhile to adjust to not being seneschal!

Things I liked

• First and foremost I liked serving the barony. Cleftlands is an amazing group of people. While we have great fighters and great artists, more ( Read more... )