'Personal' Category
Lists!
Do you write lists? I am a list girl. My daughter is a list girl. My mother is a list girl. My son is a list boy … we are list people. Lists appeal to the total control freak side of my being. I like the idea of writing the list, then ticking off the [...]
S4L Book Club – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Deborah, Zakariyya, and Rebecca meet Christoph at his Johns Hopkins lab to examine HeLa cells and discuss their commerce. Christoph told Deborah and Zakariyya, about their mother’s cells: “Once there is a cure for cancer, it’s definitely largely because of your mother’s cells.” He then used an analogy about ownership rights of finding oil on [...]
Stitching For The Left-Handed
Hands up all those readers who are left-handed stitchers! I am waving my hand around madly … any more of you out there? Have you ever had trouble trying to interpret diagrams in stitching charts? Or sat in a class wondering what on earth is wrong with your brain because everyone else is busily stitching [...]
Cyclone Yazi
I was going to do something light and frothy today for my blog entry. But instead I am compelled to write about the very nasty cyclone heading towards North Queensland, which is due to hit the coast late this evening or early tomorrow morning (Australia time). Queenslanders are getting quite a battering (and this might [...]
Holiday Math
Pay attention. There will be a test at the end.
I Am Here
See? A lot like yesterday’s image, no? Of course you all knew to interpret “almost heaven” as a clue. It was fun to see what you did with that; you’re all so smart and creative. Here’s the rest of it: Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River. I think most of you will [...]
Where Am I?
Y’all did so well with the last one, I’ll ask again. Being as specific as you can be, where am I? I’ll tell you this: It’s almost heaven, not directly adjacent to it, but nearby.
Classic Woman Awards Luncheon
I’m impressed with the answers to yesterday’s question: they were very precise and very close. In fact, I was in the ballroom at the Mandarin Oriental, 80 Columbus Circle & W 60th Street, NYC. I walked by the Trump Tower on 5th Avenue on my way there, and I walked through Central Park before the [...]
Off Again
Here we go. Taking off. Making tracks.
Online Needlework Show
The autumn online Needlework Show opensThursday, October 21. It’s a wholesale needlework show that’s open to the public for viewing, so go have a look around. Though the show runs through the 26th, public viewing will close on the 24th to give registered buyers time to consolidate and place their orders. Funk & Weber Designs [...]
, by Ellen Ruppel Shell
, by Elizabeth Strout.
