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Life from a slightly skewed perspective

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How can we keep from singing?

This morning during my daily Zoom meditation with friends around the U.S., one friend was in tears over the events of the past 10 days....

Do something step one: Downsizing

Our minds were made up: we were moving. To be clear, the concept was much easier said than done. There was the little matter of clearing...

Do something

In early January, the members of my meditation group shared our one-word intentions for 2024. I struggled with a way to express the...

Spring 2023: Sewing baby quilts

Sewing for babies is way more fun than sewing for adults. Everything is smaller, takes less fabric, less time, less angst. So when our...

Finding art in mysterious places

It's funny how you can find art in unexpected places. My husband and I grew up in old houses with magical, mysterious, slightly creepy...

The cat who...

I know I've said this, but contrary to what my cat-loving childhood friend says, I am not a cat person. That doesn't mean I don't like...

Genetics and how they apply to entertaining

My understanding of genetics is limited to the understanding that physical traits and characteristics get passed down from one generation...

Home alone: Old house project #42

After 42 years, my husband should know better than to leave me home alone for a week. After all, there was that time he and one of our...

What's on your reading list for this summer?

A recent New York Times preview of books to read this summer prompted a memory of Bluffton University (College) president, Dr. Lee...

A cat is just a cat...except when it's not

I am not a cat person. It's not that I don't like cats. Cats are fine. They're especially fine when they're outside. They're also fine if...

Project of the week: Reusable unpaper towels

Remember Rosie, the diner waitress in the Bounty commercials? Her face was said to have "launched a billion rolls of paper towels."...

Project of the week: Designing slipcovers

Well...maybe not ALL the furniture.... maybe just some of it... During the early days of the pandemic when very little was known about...

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