My Christmas gift to myself this year was a pair of shelves I bought on Etsy, beautiful reclaimed wood with hand-forged brackets. I’d wait, I thought, for my son to hang them when he visited this summer, so after I unboxed them, they sat stacked against the wall. Waiting. But then I got to thinking. …
The times they are a’changing. Nights have been in the fifties, summer’s humidity is gone, and last week my home town even squeezed in a few rain showers. Next week our temperatures return to summer, but it’s clear the end is near. I went to a greenhouse last night for “Mums and Merlot,” a little …
Ask anyone in my family and they’ll tell you: there’s nothing I love better than a miniature. Doll houses, especially. The tiny plates and chairs. Little beds and pillows. Small parcels of foodstuffs. I had my vintage Little People and Pet Shop and Polly Pockets ready and waiting when grandchildren were still babes in arms. …
This is my symphony 