Paper Doll Tales Posts

I love things that make my life easier. Wet hair pulled back in a pony tail.  Paper plates in a pinch.  The lady who offers to return my shopping cart…

Kids and Treasures

It’s hard, real hard, to get “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can” unstuck from my brain.  That stupid little sing-song phrase ranks right up…

Kids and Treasures Thoughts and Musings

Wanderings and Travel

Cloth diapering, in my experience, involved a rusty diaper pin that would never pass airline security these days, a stained (once white) rectangle most recently used as a dusting rag,…

Kids and Treasures Wanderings and Travel

Sit.  Stay at home, mom. Stay. I chose to be a stay-at-home mom.  I willingly gave up grading vocab quizzes, rousing snoozing students from drool-slicked desktops, signing crumpled hall passes,…

Thoughts and Musings

I’ve taken my last morning beach walk of the week.  Today’s tally?  Three baby horseshoe crab shells, two gaping fish heads, one spiny sea urchin, scads of tinkling cockle shells.…

Wanderings and Travel