Curses!
Sunday, October 11th, 2009Did you need to curse a blue streak today, only to open your mouth and find no words coming out? Or if they did, they were unsatisfyingly mild, like “darn” and “heck”? Yeah, sorry about that–Ken and I used up the daily allotment of the really bad four-letter words, trying to wrap our brains [...]
Mother’s Day
Sunday, May 10th, 2009“Everyone talks about Mother’s Day, but nobody does anything about it.”
Wait, that’s not right. Lots of people do lots of stuff for Mother’s Day: they send cards and flowers, they take their mothers, sisters and wives out for brunch or tea, they present the honorees with chocolates and jewelry. Some take a quiet [...]
White-ish Christmas!
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007It’s been such a happy Christmas season, starting with the NY trip and giving ourselves freedom from gift-giving pressure, to our Chicken Carolers (of whom, darn it, I didn’t think to take a picture) and our Zombie Yulesters, to four mellow days at home together, eating, drinking, and making merry; it’s all been wonderful. [...]
Haunted Sunday
Monday, October 22nd, 2007The creepiness factor ratcheted way up this weekend: as we were busily preparing the house for our anxiously-awaited Halloween visitors (Hi guys! T minus nine days and eeeeeeee!) these troublemakers dropped by:
They don’t look like they’re moving on any time soon, do they? At least they brought us delicious seeds for roasting (yum!) [...]
Punkins-n-Purl
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Just a bit of fall for those of you needing it: here’s a look this year’s crop of ‘home-grown’ punkins. Didn’t they turn out great? It was a super-easy project–much easier than last year’s, which involved seeds and dirt and watering, and yielded half as many punkins!
Thursday night, Portland was graced with [...]
Flavors of Fear
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Fear has a lot of flavors and textures. There’s a sharp, silver fear that runs like lightning through your arms and legs, and galvanizes you into action, power, motion. There’s heavy, leaden fear that comes in ingots, piling up in your belly during the empty hours between midnight and morning, when everything is [...]
Walk With Me
Sunday, October 14th, 2007I love the neighborhood we live in. I’ve been taking daily walks in it through three seasons now, and although the spring flowers and lush summer gardens were pretty, the turning leaves of fall best them easily. Every day, there’s some bit of beauty I wish I could share with you; yesterday, on [...]
Feel Free…
Friday, October 5th, 2007..to envy me for the delicious weekend I’m heading into! Ingredients:
Anne of Green Gables (1985) on DVD
Mapp & Lucia (Series 1) on DVD
Ang Lee’s Sense & Sensibility free on the On Demand channel
3 boxes of Halloween decorations to put around
2 knitting projects that I really need to make progress on
1 absentee boyfriend
And a vampire [...]
Night Frights
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006“Tender lumplings everywhere, life’s no fun without a good scare!”
~The Nightmare Before Christmas
Happy Hallowe’en! Happy Samhain! Happy Pooky Night! (I just learned that one””isn’t it great?) I love being descended from the Irish, widely-credited inventors of this great holiday. It’s no wonder I love Halloween so much, it’s in [...]
The Frighteners
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006Halloween has been my favorite holiday for just about as long as I can remember. I was around 7 years old when the real power of the day struck me: we were out shopping for Halloween costumes, and I clearly remember thinking that I could be anyone or anything I wanted. That was just [...]