slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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I am spending a few minutes at a time tying on a new warp. Maybe I will get these curtains finished before the end of the year! Looking back to yesterday. I did garden clean up, threw down some fertilizer, and put in a small area to plant peas with metal hoops and the screen…
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It hasn’t sunk in yet, else I might be curled up in the bed with a panic attack. It occurred to me that I’d best ration out my Xanax for the much tougher times to come. We are probably prepared more than many people but both of us, Sandy especially, are at risk and his…
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Hello! I am taking a break from the first day of working entirely at home. I don’t have a lot of work to do anyway, since I busted my butt to get as much done as possible earlier this week. Actually, I have been preparing for this possibility since the beginning of March. That is…
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Yesterday and today I woke up very late. Yesterday I think that I was just mentally exhausted. Then last night I didn’t get to sleep until after 2 a.m. despite taking a xanax. Once I do get to sleep, I have all my typical anxiety dreams. We went to the Greensboro Curb Farmers’ Market late…
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Well. This was the longest week ever. Following the lead of most other universities, UNCG announced that it would suspend classes for one week to give faculty and staff time to get ready and then all lecture and seminar classes would continue online in some form or another beginning March 23, indefinitely. And while I…
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Collage from this weekend and chronicling… I like that word – CHRONICLE. Especially for this pandemic time: “The Coronavirus Chronicles” I think that I am done with the first collage. It’s called “The Choice.” Still working on this next one, called “Illustrated Question Box.” They are related. Then this one is at the beginning stages.…
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I figure I will write until I am out of coffee, eat some oatmeal, then head to Chapel Hill for my monthly collage group meeting. The coffee is a gift from my next-door neighbor, who will be a permanent resident soon. Right now he travels back and forth from Tanzania and Bangkok, where his wife…
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I started hemming the caterpillar tapestry on Sunday and noticed that it wasn’t laying flat and was ready to steam and block it when it occurred to me that it didn’t need to be and should not be flat and rectangular! I am so used to working in 2-D and in rectangular shapes that I…
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I really struggled at the end on who to vote for in the presidential primary. The rest was pretty easy. I’ve been a Sanders Sister for years, even before he ever ran the first time. But I really really really like Elizabeth Warren. I could not decide right up to filling in the ballot, and…
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On Saturday morning I worked on collages again. They are still in progress, but I may be close to finished with this one. It tells a story about choice. I pulled the text out of a Victorian novel called The Brown Eyes of Mary. At first I intended them to be random blocks of text,…
slowly she turned 