Focus, Janice

I read an article in Real Simple about how distracted we all get multi-tasking.  It’s written in a humorous way, but there are bits of wisdom in there.  I can think  about an art project, do the dishes, listen to TV all at once – and somehow things get done.  The article claims that distractions [...]

Scramble, people

one of my weavings made with Pendelton Blanket strips
I came upon a wonderful web site/store for fiber freaks like myself.  Phat Fiber makes up a box each month from samples vendors send them for marketing purposes and for just general notice about their product.  I was mesmerized by the shear quantities of such great wools, [...]

Like ripples in the lake

 

 

When I stayed at Diane’s house on the lake, I used to watch the ripples in the water.  I didn’t know if they were started by drops of rain or the fish coming to surface to catch an insect dinner.  I’d try and watch the first ripple makes it way into shore.  It was hard [...]

In our name

I remember turning on television to get the weather (well, ok, I was in California at the time, so the weather is all the same, but being from the East Coast, we are programmed to see what the weather is).  I saw the first tower on fire with a gaping hole.  The news caster was [...]

Behind shopping

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Ok, I shop – I love to spend time in bead stores, books stores and yarn shops – but malls and outlet stores are usually not my kind of “shopping.”   I wanted to see what the outlets were like in Commerce, GA.  Mike and I drove [...]

horses and fog

 
 
 

 
Just some horses ignoring the fog – hey, a horse has to eat, right?

pushing it down

pain remains through the day
all the things I do
I try not to think about it
I know it’s there
eating at my stomach
making my head hurt
but i still go on
acting as if the world is right
I shop, I clean, I unpack boxes
and all the while
I think of you
think of the loss
feel the pain
and still I push it [...]

It takes a real man…

 

“Hey, Bub, let me see that little whistle.”
“Stay away from Idaho,”  says the pack.
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Well, a hunter in Idaho shot the first wolf to death - in a legalized state goal of 220 wolf deaths slated for this hunting season.  It takes a real man to use a whistle to simulate [...]