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A BIT OF SUMMER (IN THE GARDEN)

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…

LIVING THE SIMPLE LIFE BY ELAINE ST. JAMES

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…

THE WITCH OF PORTOBELLO BY PAULO COELHO

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…

HOME ENLIGHTENMENT BY ANNIE B. BOND

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…

A BROOM OF ONE’S OWN BY NANCY PEACOCK

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…

THE CARCINOGENIC INCENSE

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…

BAGS AND TIN BOXES

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…

WHAT’S LEFT OF SPRING’S DREAMS

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…

IMAGES OF ROMANIA AND INDIA

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…