Mind Flush

Here is the final round of photos of the house, which went on the market Friday. Wish us luck!

All has been quiet on the home building front while we wait for our plans to be drawn up and for mortgage paperwork to be processed.  In a c...

So, after a week of emails and phone calls and visits to model houses and Excel spreadsheets and Long Serious Discussions, Wednesday was the...

I'm sitting in the sunroom, a pleasant breeze coming in through the window and sun streaming over my shoulder.  I dig my toes into the e...

There have been many times in the past few weeks that I wished life came with a set of instructions, or at least a map sketched on the back ...

I am a writer. I write all the time (not that you'd know from this blog over the past year or so).  I write Facebook updates, and capt...

That is, it was slow, clumsy, and covered in fluffy yellow crocus pollen :)

Liza's been working on her Mensa For Kids reading list, and early this year I decided I would start reading the books on the high school...

Our house faces south, and the layout of the entryway means that the ground near our front porch is always the first to warm up in the sprin...

Inspired by an excellent post from an IRL friend (yes, I have one of those - her blog is here: http://www.only-mama.com/2013/02/how-to-fly-w...

Day after day, when I still worked at the Forty-second street branch of the public library, I saw the same young man, bearded, intense, cl...

   "Do I really have to go through this again?  I've already told the other officers my story, like, 10 times now."    "...

In days gone past, the volume of one's writing or correspondence was important. People loved getting personal letters that ran for pages...

I'm taking an online writing course this month, and today's discussion made me remember a journal I used to keep back in the dark ag...

I'll be the first one to admit it - I'm not a great housekeeper.  I'm not the worst ever, and despite what my husband thinks, we...

G: If you want comforting bedtime reading, don't look up Norovirus on Google. J: What's neurovirus? G: Norovirus - you know, the...

I'm not dead yet, but I kinda wish I was. I'm going to be annoyingly positive so I don't bring everyone else down: Things I...

Turned off the notifications on my phone and iPad for e-mail messages, that is. I'm trying to pursue a more single-minded, less multi-t...

You'd think that with all my communication skills (look, I post all the time on Facebook and my blog, and I have the expensive piece of ...

I've started reading Simple Abundance (again!), and I was struck by today's entry - it listed the six graces of Gratitude, Simplici...