the latest posts tagged ‘christmas’
the reason for whose season?
Dear Christmas Message Email Sender: I’m writing with the hope that we can go back to when I loved December and Christmas, when tree lots smelled like fresh-cut pines and friends stopped by with homemade cookies, when the cold outside made it all the more wonderful to be inside and warm, sliding on hardwood floors…
cranky hipsta xmas nana
I was watching Ina Garten on TV the other day. She was putting a five-egg/one-pan French country omelet in the oven, happily pointing out that it was a two-person dish. She muttered about making individual omelets, “It’s like having to stand at the stove making pancakes for everyone on the weekend. Ugh.” I smiled…
tripping into fall, oohing and aahing
I wish I’d had a better camera when Mot and I found Gig Harbor, Washington on a chilly October day on the far side of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. These windows, in the Threshold Group’s architectural stunner of a building, look onto the marina, as do homes on the wooded hillside across the inlet….
still tilting at windmills
When my stepmother Margery died last year, we rescued Don Quixote from the scrap heap in Carmel and brought him to San Diego where he greets visitors at Casa de Swell. He’s a little unsteady from his years scaring deer outside MMM’s house, rust having disconnected his legs from his feet. His…
Totally Random Crap
Clutter. There are scraps and fragments everywhere, in oddly named computer files on my iMac, scrawled in pencil on the backs of envelopes and Albertson’s receipts, scratchy voice memos on my iPhone. Reminders of things I should do (or should have done, whoops), dates to put on the calendar, ideas for blog posts. I had…