by me | Oct 31, 2021 | Books, Family, Home, writing, writing for children
I made it to the lighthouse on a recent family beach visit, decades after I wrote the best chapter of my college honors thesis on Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse. Hello, Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall was more in keeping with the reading list for the trip as...
by me | Sep 21, 2021 | Books, current non-events, Home, writing, writing for children
A couple of weeks ago I couldn’t get to sleep, so I counted bookshelves instead of sheep (shout out to Kate Wolf’s line, “Countin’ troubles, ‘stead of countin’ sheep.”) I have no idea what number I came up with, but it was in...
by me | Jan 31, 2014 | current events, Family, food, Home, Humor
Having been an operating system for the benefit of others for many years now, it took me less time than it takes Siri to botch my latest phone call to need a system reset after watching a preview of Her, the new Joaquin Phoenix/Spike Jonze movie about the...
by me | Dec 11, 2013 | current non-events, Family, food, Holidays, Home, Humor, richmond magazine
It’s the time of year when people focus even more than usual on food. Grocery stores are stocked with holiday must-haves. Time to bake and shop and simmer. Yet the week before Thanksgiving I was stewing over what I was going to drink with a bottle of Mirilax to...
by me | Apr 29, 2013 | city living, current non-events, Environment, Home, Outdoors, Richmond VA, yard
I walked up the backyard yesterday after a walk with a friend in the soft rain. I was already thinking of the next thing I had to do when I walked over the bridge over the gully kwai (not its real name) and had enough sense to pause and see the blooms where they were...
by me | Apr 3, 2013 | city living, current non-events, Humor, renovations, Richmond VA
When I heard that Hillary Clinton found comfort in watching a particular HGTV show real estate reality show, I don’t think I’d seen the show in question for more than a minute, so I didn’t quite get how it could be comforting. Now that my husband and...
