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Evening with a friend

Published on October 14, 2010

On Wednesday night, I spent the evening with my friend Maria, before she leaves for quite a few weeks. Much has been going on in her life, much in mine, and sharing with a friend seems to double the good parts and halve the not-so-good. Oh, how we laughed together – and I will miss […]


Sewing notion

Published on July 12, 2009

For years, I’ve been using a “mouse” pincushion that was my mother’s.  As her eyes failed and she could no longer see to use her sewing things, she gave many of them to me. And last week, the local store had “sewing notions” all 50% off!!   And I thought of that sad old mouse.  And […]