Today has been a day of many errands. Many engagements with many "strangers," and people I don't know: the gal at Target with whom I started chatting in the cleaning-supplies aisles, the cashier at the Turkish grocery store down the street from where I live, the person helping me use my store-credit card at the…
I‘ve been noticing more of my hair these past few days. Not the hair ON my head, but the hair FROM my head that’s now on the bathroom counter, on my clothes, even, ick, on my dinner plate.
I noticed the noticing — the increase in frequency — and had a momentary thought of "OMG, what…
This!
This miraculous tube of relief.
This product brought forth from The Heavens (or maybe some pharmaceutical company's lab).
This little 3.5 fl oz. tube of thank-you-thank-you-thank-you!
cover me in goo
In the past week I've gone from dabbing it selectively on the first emerging points of poison ivy rash on my hands…
Weird little bit of awesomeness today.
Out grocery shopping, I paused by the broth section, scanning the items looking for my favorite brands and checking out some new ones, too, thinking, “I should get some more broth.”
Then my brain said, quite matter of factly and with an air of measured reasonableness, “Actually, you have a fair…
How did I go from wearing a cashmere top, wool socks and boots but a few days ago to, now, sweating in a tank top, light summer skirt and bare feet?
Then the weather shifted in the afternoon. I left the house in my light summer skirt, ran a couple errands, the clouds came, the wind…
True story (for why would I speak otherwise).
Earlier today, I was in Takoma Park, Maryland, a charming, somewhat-hilly community filled with interesting and (often) aesthetic older homes. I had run an errand and was about to head home.
I thought, “Well, I often go for a walk during the day, maybe I’ll go to…
I did something today I've never done before: I walked out of a movie theater. I wasn’t even midway through the movie, and I shoulda walked out much, much earlier but I kept hoping, believing …
in mild shock
I mean how is it possible for a movie in JK Rowling's world of magic, i.e.,…
There was a time in my life when I found myself in the company of a group of modern-day hippies – Well, truth be told, I’ve been around a lot of modern-day hippies much of my life, and might, to some, be one myself, but this particular group of particular modern-day hippies also had a…
This just happened.
I thought to myself, “I’m really looking forward to dying some of my wool clothes and see how the colors work out.” (I’ve been on a bit of a kick with dying my leather and suede shoes this year and thought I’d give dying some of my wool clothes a shot.)
Then,…
My spidey-senses/intuition/knowing has been surging of late.
Late last night I was in bed and talking out loud to myself about something. (I do talk to myself here and there, though less so while trying to fall asleep.) I was thinking about a subject and a person related to project long completed. After talking about it…
It’s deep in winter and my hands are soft and smooth. My cuticles? Them too. No dry, cracked skin. No flaking itchy skin. No hard, dry cuticles that creep up each year as winter comes on. (I know I'm not alone in experiencing this winter-hands phenomenon.)
a little bit of this
I have, dear friends,…
I wondered, a couple weeks back, how “the birds” emptied my bird feeder in one fell swoop. In less than 24 hours. Went from full to not full.
I was pretty sure it wasn’t the squirrels who’d done so, given the design of the feeder and lack of squirrel access to it. Then again, squirrels. Need…
