We have a little garden growing. Heirloom tomatoes, peppers, zucchinis, eggplants and herbs. Stubborn plants. We brought them home and kept them on the deck for about two weeks before we got a chance to work on the garden and…
Sewing has made quite a come back in my life lately. I have been sewing like crazy for me, the ballerina-rock star and other little friends. My creativity needs get complete satisfaction from sewing. I was thinking of childhood games…
These days I find myself completely absorbed by the multiple aspects of simple living, an idea I just stumbled upon short time ago on, where else, Mothering.com (this website is populated by amazing, unbelievable people who live their lives in…
Something happened with the review for this book. I clearly remember having written it and yet it was nowhere to be found. What a loss. This was book that I really enjoyed and … yes, one that I would even…
Finally, it’s here. The book is in my hands. I have been waiting for it to be returned to the library since last month! I pray the wait is all worth it. Now silence. No interruptions. It’s Coelho, it will…
I bought this book. Yes, I know it’s rare. But it happened. I found it in Building 19, for $2.50. Who could have resisted that? Now, after reading it, I realize that I would have paid whatever amount of money…
If you want to find out how unglamorous writing life can be, you need to read this book. It is a beautiful writing about writing and working and living through it all. It is a nice book, but not an…
I just found this article online, and I am completely upset: really, even incense is not safe anymore? What’s next? Is there anything left? I do love my incense. Being blessed with a husband who comes from the land of…
What it is about bags and boxes I’ll never know entirely. The fascination of the secrets hidden inside, maybe. As a child, I remember, one of my most favorite imagination games was thinking of what people have stashed in closed…
The groundhog never actually touched the tomatoes (or the eggplants, as a matter of fact). Not to their liking, I suspect. But that didn’t mean that we enjoyed these glorious vegetables either. No. Because we had planted them in a…
I have just recently stumbled upon the concept of “uniform” as in a set of similar clothes that make up one’s wardrobe: jeans and black shirts, or black pants and colorful T-shirts, and so on. It’s starting to look to…
Yesterday I discovered a web site with old Romanian postcards and I decided that this is my new passion. I’m going to start collecting this stuff. I always wanted to collect something. So if you stumble upon an old postcard…