Category: Reading

  • Maybe it helped to get those complaints out of my system, or maybe it helped that I spent the late afternoon with good friends, or maybe it helped that Sandy and I had a delicious meal at Fishbones, now a weekly event. At any rate, I feel much better. My iris leaf and abaca pulp…

  • A rather dull day, but the weather was beautiful. We turned off the AC for the year Sunday night. I’m delighted to spend time in the gazebo again, and I’m pleased with my artwork. I just finished Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. I picked it up on the free shelf and wanted to read it because…

  • I liked this quiz that I found on Facebook and would love to see other answers to it. I’m not into tagging people, but if you decide to post your answers, please leave me a comment so that I can read them! 1. What was the last book you bought? I pick up most of…

  • It is getting harder and harder to post here, because for one, I am art journaling on actual PAPER (yes, it does still exist) and two, every time I get online I am totally distracted by this wonderful new Yahoo group that just started. Everyone is excited and enthusiastic and it is very busy with…

  • On some mornings, the sky melds with the lake. This is my fourth annual post about a weeklong trip to my cousin’s house on the shore of Lake Waccamaw. This week was a little unusual because we were the only ones there the entire time of our stay. My sister, brother-in-law, niece, and grand-nephew, and…

  • I am totally overwhelmed with the books I’ve bought in the last few weeks. It’s like a book fiend has taken over my body. Yesterday Sandy and I did a big purge of books to take to Ed McKay’s today, so I could get my new stacks of books off the floor and onto shelves.…

  • I decided not to try to write a work of literature about the lake trip and just yak about it randomly. It was a quiet vacation, the kind I like, although I’m much better suited to it than my husband. I can be alone for three days with a stack of books or a project…