Past time.

When I asked my husband to build it years ago we had kids’ towels, floats and toys that were being dropped and draped all over the place.  The rack he constructed out of PVC pipe worked beautifully to corral all that pool related stuff. But the kids haven’t lived here for some time now and…

Goodbye Yesterday.

You can’t say I didn’t try. I’ve repainted all the rooms and there are new quilts on every single bed. I’ve removed curtains, changed up the art work and bought new pillows and towels. Other than buying new furniture or moving, I’m not sure what more I can do. And still..there are times when I…

3:35 all day…

I hung up a new clock I bought the other day, and was super pleased with how great it looked against the fresh wall color in the bathroom I am almost done painting. Later, as I was getting ready to go out for a much needed GNO, I realized the time was way off. “That’s…

Sharing Autumn

If I had to pick my favorite colors in all of nature, it would be these.. And if I had to pick one of my favorite things in life, it’s receiving unexpected pictures from my (grown) kids letting me share in the little (and sometimes big) things going on in their lives.. or even just a pretty…

Knock, knock – Who’s there?

  Yesterday morning I attached a verse from the bible to the end of my daily post; it was 1 Peter 4:10. What followed was a super busy day as we had been gone all week-end visiting our daughter in Virginia. At 4pm, after I was finished with all my running around town, I went…

Imagining a vibrant future..

Last night, my husband and I went into the city to watch a ballroom dancing competition.  I didn’t realize how touching and motivational the experience would be. Almost all of the competing couples were women partnered with their coaches. So these are basically women who love to dance, who practice at area studios, hiring their…