2011 has been a difficult year and I’m not going to sugar coat it. I’m glad to see it go. This may seem a bit harsh, a bit glass-half-empty, a bit whiny, and even a bit ungrateful. But it’s also true, more true than I even wish to share here, in this place that I…
Category: holiday story(ies)
holiday message 2010
For some reason the words are not coming to me as quickly this year. I usually find those words spinning through my head in the late hours of the night as I work on the Christmas cards. Perhaps this year those words were more along the lines of “what was I thinking?” – to say…
holiday message 2009
The finished quilt, the pieces now scattered a hundred different ways. Inspired by these quilts that I saw at a local museum and were once on first class stamps that I bought up when they were issued, I sat down to make something in a similar vein. I had sorted and stacked papers countless times…