slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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2010 has been such a brain-busting, heart-opening, imaginative adventure for me, despite the fact that I spent a lot of it bemoaning my tendinitis and thinking more than doing. I decided to do a post about all the teachers that I have been inspired by this past year (and during a little of 2009). Susanne…
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I’m the featured artist in Go Triad’s Meet an Artist column today. The reporter interviewed me for about 45 minutes with a recorder, and chose the quotes and organized them for the article. Then a photographer came to my house and scared me to death with the prospect of my face in the paper again.…
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This wonderful week in which I have been ensconced at home with a white snowscape outside and the smoky smell of the woodstove within shows me how quickly I could fall back into agoraphobia. I am so comfortable and happy here in my home that the thought of leaving it today to go to the…
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Don’t feel like blogging tonight, but I told myself I’d blog every day this week. I’d much rather be weaving this: It is based on the blackbird photos that I took on Christmas morning. The warp and one of the wefts is black carpet warp. The blue wool must be thrums from somebody because it…
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Lately I have been reading a lot of ACTUAL BOOKS. The kind with a cover and paper and ink? In fact, I think that is why my left hand has taken a turn for the worse because I tend to hold a book in my left hand. Who knew that you could overdo reading? I…
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This amount of snow is very exciting to us Southerners. When we get winter weather it is more often ice and sleet. Looks like you folks to our northeast are about to get dumped on. In the South, everybody runs out to the grocery store at the hint of a snow forecast and loads up…
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We returned to Greensboro a day earlier because the weather forecasts have been all over the place, and they were calling for several inches of snow in southeastern NC in the morning – they rarely get much snow and given the unpredictability of the whole scenario, we decided after a call to a Greensboro friend…
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First and foremost, I will bake the broccoli casserole for Christmas dinner tomorrow. This is usually my sister’s dish, but she is celebrating with her husband’s side of the family this year, so I get the honors! Yay, I was getting tired of doing the out-of-season asparagus casserole. I was able to buy broccoli at…
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It’s a Festivus miracle! Frank Costanza: Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way. Cosmo Kramer: What happened to the doll? Frank Costanza: It…
slowly she turned 