This is my ... fourth? e-book reader. All the previous ones (there was a beautiful Sony, a nice Nook, and another Kindle) have died premature deaths, well with the exception of the Nook, which still lives, but it is not an e-ink screen so it always felt more like a tablet. This new little fellow is the Kindle Voyage. Early birthday present. > > >
Until last week Montreal was for me only the place where Nadia Comaneci had won her perfect 10 the summer that I was born. After a surprisingly easy trip last weekend (we drove and it was not that bad, actually) it has fleshed out a little. Now it's the place with the Jean Talon market where they have a Romanian store, the stunning . . . > > >
I haven't read a lot for pleasure these past two (and a half) months since my previous Books post. But there have been quite a few books in my life, mostly manuals for the courses I'm taking. I added two of those to this list because they are really great books. The Woman Upstairs, by Claire Messud: I loved this one. It's the kind of book . . . > > >
Things have been keeping me busy these past two weeks and as much as I don't like it when the blog goes down to the bottom of the to-do list, it happened again. Last week I had a final project to submit for the Information Design course I have been taking. The final project was a "me" advertising piece. I came up with this little author ad . . . > > >
Spring seems to have arrived in our area, and with it my thoughts of spring gardening. Delusional as I might be, both about spring and the garden, because most days it's still dark and cloudy, and I still pull the wool socks on almost every night. Also because I just went out to clean up the yard for five minutes hour last week I came . . . > > >
I have made in just a week, since I came up with the idea, about seven headbands from silk squares for myself. I'm addicted to it. Because obviously I need one to match every imaginable outfit. Which shouldn't be too many though, considering how I wear only black, gray, white and the occasional navy blue and fuchsia. > > >
I am afraid that my website is in a bad shape right now. I had to delete everything to erase all traces of malicious files that had infected my website and rebuild it all from scraps that I had saved here and there (because my backups didn't work). I will be working on it this
In the past few weeks I had the greatest luck thrifting: a Madewell Transport tote and a Filofax organizer materialized in front of me, straight out of my dreams. Deserving of a blog post, right? The bag was not something I had been looking for in the thrift shop because
You all know about my regular struggles with blogging and being on the Web. I’ve made so many mistakes that although I’ve had this online space since 2008, I haven’t gotten anywhere with it and my audience has in time diminished rather than grown. I think that
One of my resolutions for this year had been to keep a closer awareness of the important pagan calendar days throughout the year, the solstices and equinoxes, the phases of the moon, etc. I wanted to allow a closer connection with my intuition, with the signs that are