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March 2009

Spring Around The Farmstead

Flower Bud is our most shy hen.  She is also (in my opinion) the prettiest.  I am a sucker for stripes and dots to the... Read more »

Doing My Parenting Homework

When you get a diagnosis of any serious kind for your child it's like registering for a life-long class for which you are going... Read more »

Feeling Rich On Sunday

The good things in life aren't necessarily free, but when someone (my dad, for example) sends you a couple bottles of olive oil pressed from... Read more »

My Son, My Legacy

When I was ten years old, diving into my very first private locked diary- finding out what I might reveal if I knew no... Read more »

Technology Is Killing Me

Technology is trying to kill me.  So is the smell of my sweat, but we're not going to discuss that now.  I am on... Read more »

How Do You Mourn Death?

Sometimes it seems the universe is not poised to let me out into the ether.  Perhaps there is time and then there is a... Read more »

Home Dried Versus Store Bought Thyme

Home dried thyme on the left.  Store bought dried thyme on the right.The color is exquisitely preserved when you use a dehydrator to dry them. ... Read more »

A Crocus From My Son

A couple of days ago Max came in with this gift for me.  He picked it by the side of a little wooded area in... Read more »

Tightening Threads Of Thought

As I work on this whole recovery from torture thing I find my thoughts are traveling some well worn pathways in my head.  Over... Read more »

Consumption Must Not Be Nice

It is almost 1am.  I am up.  I am up because my cough is heinous.  I breath in (not deeply) and that awful coughing... Read more »

Influenza Comes To Stay

It would seem that I have gone my whole life without ever once getting influenza.  I have been known and prone to getting one... Read more »

From The Deathbed, With Love

When I find out who filled my head with concrete I'm going to have to get petty on their asses and return the favor. ... Read more »

Ice Cream Saves Sick Woman!

It is no secret that I have been trying-willing myself- to get back to work on the quilt top I made over a year... Read more »

Stitch And Boots

Roost is taken. I started off this morning sreaming at my son, after 15 minutes of trying to get him to get dressed, that it... Read more »

The Reluctant Gears Of Change

I have been so impatient for change in the past three years that I have failed to remember how the best change is an... Read more »

An ADD Diagnostic Test

This week Max will go for his second appointment with the psychologist who is going to treat him.  To be better prepared to set... Read more »

You Are Beautiful

Quick- before I have time to think or edit:Why is it that 85% of all toilet paper and paper towels are printed or quilted... Read more »

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