I'm so very grateful that it's Friday, because I really need one of these days coming around every week. But it does make me wonder ...

Yesterday's post was number 2950! I'm getting towards post number 3000 and should hit that before the end of the year. Maybe I shoul...

Today is my "day off" and my plans are five loads of laundry, grocery and sundries shopping, cooking dinner, restringing a necklac...

A new credit card will be in my hands sometime next week (then I can start the rounds of changing and updating my auto-pay accounts from one...

So it's July! Well. Who would'a thunk July would ever come around? But the earth keeps moving and we keep grooving and progress thro...

I'm short on time and in a mood for photos, but first a quick update. Yesterday's breakfast with my long-ago friend actually went pr...

I saw my first patch of green grass yesterday as I dropped mail off at the post office. A real patch of green nestled among the melting snow...

We had a quiet Easter. We stayed home because we really didn't have the money to go out for a lunch or drinks, but we had a nice day. ...

We had a very nice, low-key anniversary. I picked up sushi on the way home, so we had a nice dinner and a relaxing evening. I still can...

As I stated earlier this week, although to many people Betas are beautiful fish, for me betas are people who I help authors with their writi...

My long list to be accomplished on my Studio Day actually did get knocked down a bit.  I managed to get everything except the sewing project...

Our weather has been fantastic for October.  So we, in hope of a good Sunday, pulled steaks from the freezer yesterday to defrost.  If all i...

I hope that all of you had a great equinox.  In my area of the world, Autumn has now arrived.  That means I'll soon be seeing snow and s...

I'm exhausted.  The nights have been cool and the days have been quite tolerable - temps in the upper 70's and lower 80's (that...

Is there anything better on a crisp autumn day (actually evening/night) than havine a nice, warm studio and a high-firing kiln? I don't ...

What is it about grey skies and drippy weather than dampens my creativity? I know wonderful artists and creative people in the Northwest US ...

Welcome to October. It's hard to believe that the summer we all looked forward to has gone by so fast. I have one final weekend at Renai...

Autumn is currently arriving. Historically, it is the favored season for several reasons. Primarily among those reasons is that the crops ar...

This is my favorite time of the year. The end of summer and beginning of fall is a time of topaz, garnet and olivine - some of my favorite c...