Paper Doll Tales Posts

    Top two highlights of my life so far: my wedding and birth of child.  (Notice I specifically did not write “childbirth.”  No.  {Shudder.}  That cannot be considered a…

Thoughts

Pied Beauty Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal…

Thoughts and Musings

“Simplify, simplify, simplify,” penned the great Ralph Waldo Emerson in Walden.  It’s taken me four years of re-reading his book to get the irony behind that phrase:  If living what…

Kids and Treasures Thoughts and Musings

Little Friend has officially discovered photographs.  She alternately carries around and loses a wallet print of Big Friend and I mugging for the camera at our wedding.  She screeches “Daaaa”…

Kids and Treasures

There.  I said it.  I am a runner.  I really have a hard time getting that sentence out.  I was the high school girl who spent more time nursing her…

Thoughts and Musings

Thoughts