It’s 2019, a brand new year–Welcome, Little One! Welcome, Little One–darling, sweet and innocent, 2019. You still have that new baby smell! I always get excited at the beginning of …
Good-bye to another year
Good-bye 2018 I can’t believe it’s time to say good-bye to another year. I don’t remember them flying so quickly when I was younger. But these last 10 or 20 …
Birth of the Light–Happy Winter Solstice
The longest night In darkest night comes the birth of the light. That’s tonight! This gray windy day never seemed to get completely light–and then came the dark. In my …
The first snow of the season! in haiku
Waking up to snow! I woke up this morning to the first snow of the season. Big fluffy flakes falling down–and not sticking to much. Although when I went out …
A shiny stovetop and another household hint poem for Poetry Friday
As you can see, I now have a shiny stovetop. You can see in the before photo that it wasn’t terrible before (at least not by my standards!). But I …
Are you tired? Here’s a dream to refresh you….
Happy Poetry Friday Because we need a dream to refresh us from the busy-ness and harshness of life, here’s a lovely poem by ee cummings. It’s called You are tired …
Gnome G-poem
Because It’s Poetry Friday and Inktober! Today, I bring you a Gnome G-poem. First of all, it’s a limerick because it’s Poetry Friday and second, it has an illustration in …
Minimalist Rag(e)–a poem and some thoughts on minimalism
Wrestling with minimalism I think about minimalism from time to time, and I have mixed feelings about it. I’ve been reading Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki–a book about minimalist living. He …
How to get rid of clothes moths–a household hint poem
They’re back! I recently had another outbreak of clothes moths. Those things make me a little crazy. I have so much wool in my house–wool for spinning and felting, wool …