flawed but authentic

…for holiday newsletters. Do y’all get these too? I send one out, but I try to make it funny and light rather than a two page, double sided brag fest about how brilliant and talented my children are. (And they are. Totally.) While searching for a funny quote to use [...]

(Sorry I managed to screw up posting two weeks in a row. But my computer BROKE yesterday. New computer today! Yay.)
My mom is over 80. She recently got a letter in the mail from someone she had gone to grammar school with.
The letter was from a woman, Jill, who had been in the same school [...]

I paraphrased this poem by Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi in my “about” section. I love the whole thing so much that I thought I would share it.
Come, come, whoever you are
Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
It doesn’t matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow
a thousand times
Come, yet again, come, [...]

I rearrange my bookshelf two or three times each year. The books were originally alphabetized by author name. Then I switched to a genre type of classification. Then I got all fruity and took half of the books off of the shelf and replaced them with baskets of decorative crap and framed pictures. Regardless of [...]

Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson