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Time is not my enemy.
But sometimes it feels like it is. I’ve been (ever so slowly) reading a book called The Lazy Genius. It’s full of really great stuff. Practical help. Emotional help. All the in between help. The author talks about the seasons of our lives – raising little babies, empty nest, new careers, frequent moves, crisis, whatever it might be for you.…
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Five Finds Friday (touring college and of course – boots & tea)
This week was fasssst. And pretty lovely and pretty regular and there was a golden conversation with the most wonderful of humans and there were long hard stares directed at me from teens and there were jobs that got checked off to the to do list and a major frustration financially and a car battery that died but a dad…
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Needle Felting: A Timberdoodle Review
This is a sponsored post. I received this item from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review. These thoughts and these words and these opinions are, as always on this page and in real and regular life, all completely and totally my own. ______________________________ I’m in love with this kit. I won’t try to set you up for a pitch or a…
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one of those . . . weeks
You ever have a day that just u n r a v e l s ? Or, you know, an entire week? Heads are nodding, I’m assuming. Mine is. I don’t even exactly know how. Or why. This year I stepped back from teaching the writing and literature high school course I have taught for three years. I thought that…
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Plus-Plus: One of our Favorites from Timberdoodle
This is a sponsored post. I received this item from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review. These thoughts and these words and these opinions are, as always on this page and in real and regular life, all completely and totally my own. ________________________________________ I guess I gave this one away with the title. But, to me, Plus-Plus is a lot like…
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Film Making Class: A Timberdoodle Review
This is a sponsored post. I received this item from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review. These thoughts and these words and these opinions are, as always on this page and in real and regular life, all completely and totally my own. ________________________________________ Until now, I’ve never tried to count how many years I have been working with Timberdoodle, writing reviews…
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mid-week rambling.
We’re trying to do a little school around here. (Math. History. A couple good novels.) It was sad to start Wildwood with only four students. And – most days it actually kind of feels like just three. Mosely is working and taking dual enrollment classes and only needs a few more credits to graduate so she’s not really in all…
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Five Finds Friday (boots, of course, and pretty drinks and a book update)
We started school this week! And yes, it felt pretty odd to only have FOUR students at Wildwood’s first day. funny Lately Piper and I have been laughing together a lot. Which is a nice thing because being the youngest teenager at our house, sometimes there’s less laughing and more …. NOT laughing. If you catch what I’m saying. We’ve…
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today. (teens are wonderful wonderful too – PSA)
I know I’ve written a LOT about my feelings this year – about graduation and kids growing up and oh whatever floated across my mind. (This may not be called “My Space” but it sure as heck IS my space.) I stand by all these feelings. They are true and they are mine and I have felt them all. (And…
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five finds friday (more feelings, an architect’s table I want to find and milk tea)
Is there anything better than birthday week? By a coincidence of timing, I ended up taking the boys on a couple belated birthday adventures of their own over the last few weeks and those have been like gifts to me – kayaks and treehouses and drives on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Any day I see a wide expanse of a mountain view is a…
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Otto Meets a Hawk
Maybe the idea started because I’m always trying to keep Birthday Magic going strong even after the actual celebration. Or maybe it began as a way to spread the cost of gifts out with half a dozen children. Who knows? I can’t recall exactly when, but at some point in our family history I started giving gifts that were future…
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The Right Word.
Decreasing numbers. First we were 8. Then, in the same year, we were 6. Last week a series of mixed events had us at about 4 for more than a week. I felt like our numbers were dwindling too dramatically and I didn’t care for that feeling. My sweet college friend Gretchen and her lovely family were passing through town…
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Cognitive Drawing: A Timberdoodle Review
This is a sponsored post. I received this item from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review. These thoughts and these words and these opinions are, as always on this page and in real and regular life, all completely and totally my own. __________________________________________ I have a lot of artistic kids. And figuring out ways to manage their interests and…
