~ “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” ~Edith Sitwell
Monthly Archives: January 2012
They leave and the house is so quiet. A stillness that settles, both filled with calm and just a small sense of loneliness. I hadn’t noticed it before like I do now. Before, I would get them on the bus, turn around and wave the ‘I love you’ sign and then find myself checking my...
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I have 4 very creative sisters. They decorate, inspire, and make beautiful things with their hands. One of them does intricate tatting work. They can cook like you read about. One of them paints – as in, on canvas. They all have a whole lot of talent. And all of them are expert knitters. Except...
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It’s cold in Connecticut. Morning shocks with its arrival of stinging sunshine. And two 8-year-olds seem to find it enjoyable. (They get that from their Dad.) Enjoyable, and evidently a little breathtaking when the wind kicks up: “Winter came down to our home one night Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow, And we,...
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