It’s Saturday morning, and I’m doing something I rarely do during the day: I’m watching TV. I’m watching the Giro d’Italia bike race. Many years ago, pre-children, I loved cycling. I bought a compact Cannondale road bike shortly after my husband and I married 25 years ago, and I rode it all over the mid-Atlantic … Continue reading Back to bicycling
Back in January, a friend at work pitched an idea on our internal watercooler blog: what if we start a creators club, with the end goal of presenting our work as an online exhibit? Before this happened, I had set an intention in January to draw this year, so I thought, what the heck, and I … Continue reading A little painting
Today I put the finishing touches on the project I’m submitting for an online art exhibition some of us are doing at work. In the final two weeks leading up to the deadline, I finally decided what I’d make: an illustrated list of my favorite drinks. Maybe I’d even take the plunge and add paint … Continue reading Places I find myself on the internet
Today is Saturday, and my husband is home. As I write, I smell the warm scent of bread he’s baking. I recently heard an idea to switch the end-of-day question from “How was your day?” to “What was your happiest moment from today?”, and as of right now, at 3:08pm, my happiest moment is smelling … Continue reading Back to regular life — with sketches!
The snow flurries ended by lunch yesterday, and I spent the afternoon shoveling mulch. I completed the first full pile, the one blocking the garage. The front flower beds are (mostly) tidy now and ready to grow. I took a break mid-afternoon to come inside and do some yoga to relieve my lower back. I … Continue reading Happy Equinox!
We had two truckloads of mulch delivered yesterday. A huge pile in the driveway blocks the garage. A second pile awaits me at the top of the hill out back. A bolt fell out of our wheelbarrow yesterday; I fear it won’t survive this year’s mulch-spreading. It’s been rickety for two or three years now, … Continue reading Snow on my gardening vacation
Butterfly Mind 