Have you ever tripped on your own cropped pants?

So, have you? I do… regularly. If there’s anyone who understands how this happens, I want to be your friend! For those of you who can not comprehend this, it’s easy. Here’s how it happens…
As my left foot steps up the stairs and I bring my right foot up to step up the next stair, [...]

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Sunday Morning Ritual

Here I am again, celebrating a slow Sunday morning with a little pot of silver needle white tea, browsing fabrics on the internet. My muscles are sore from a deeply satisfying day of gardening yesterday. Rain is watering the perennials I transplanted. The air smells woodsy from the bark Rob and I spread around our [...]

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Spontaneous Human Connection

How many people cross our paths each day? Dozens as we drop children off at school. For most of us, dozens of human interactions occur during our work days through email, physical proximity to co-workers, telephone, mail, etc. In our personal lives we pass people on sidewalks, in our cars, in shopping aisles; [...]

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Cleaning Out My Empty Nest

This is the time of year when adult children ready themselves for college, and parents face the bitter/sweet fact that their fledglings are about to desert the nest. The truth is, my nest emptied last year as my last son headed out on his own. No parent can deny the sudden heady reality of evenings [...]

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