Hey. Sorry about that. I spent most of the summer working on launching a new blog and website all about design and decor. I was busy ...

1. Be diagnosed with gall stones and an inflamed gallbladder. 2. Ignore the good doctor's advice to have it removed--for two years....

Dear Friends, I'm afraid I've lost my mojo for doing projects around the house. I still want to do all the things on my summer proje...

Wow. Have I been busy. two and a half on-line courses, one of which involved creating three layouts (or more) a week, another which involved...

Somehow, the lens got "stuck," fully extended. No matter what I do, it won't retract. I have to send it to another city for se...

Photo from a local newspaper.* There are really no other words for it. Last Wednesday or Thursday the members of my husband's Union vote...

My computer is down. Kaput. I'm typing from the library, at the moment. I can't believe how hard it was to find my blog on google. N...

My sister moved out of my mother's house this weekend. She is 25. She has a son who will be one on Christmas Eve. She had scheduled a Bi...

Dear Friends, It has been preying on me that I seem to have abandoned all life outside school. We are five weeks into our studies and I'...

Since I too am feeling rather guilty about the volume of words I've produced, (and unlike Wende I've been long-winded and technical...

All day. Three out the four of us. I wasn't even pleased we'd just started our Science unit on bugs. We all got home haircuts and tr...

Dear Friends, Thank goodness February is almost over! The sun is showing her face by 8:00am every morning now, and that's a great help t...