Hey, I discovered a secret of life today. If you can’t find something, stop looking for it and look for something else. You’ll find the first thing with the second thing. Happened twice to me today, so it must be true.

We have a two-hour opening delay this morning. How nice to relax with my coffee on a Monday morning! I hope to have a few photos of my latest book and new project in progress later this week. My camera battery died. Yes, it is rechargeable, but it won’t hold a charge. I didn’t read…

Tomorrow we’re going to head down to Sunset Beach, where my sister rented an oceanfront duplex and is hosting Thanksgiving for my family members. We’ll swing by my mother’s house on the way and pick her up. I don’t have to take much – I made the asparagus casserole that has become my holiday dish,…

I’m a bit typing impaired this week, since I decided to tape up two fingers on my left hand in an effort to speed up healing. The silliest things make my hand hurt, and some perfectly understandable things too. I need to be reined in. Yesterday I spent several wonderful hours painting watercolor papers with…

The last 24 hours of this blog proved the importance of two things. One, if you’re going to write your own html code, be sure to close those tags. Two, backing up your files at least every few months or so is a really good idea. This is part of the reason I decided against…

I can’t get it through my head that it is October 19. I keep thinking that it is a week earlier or a week later. I think that I just can’t process the idea that my big wonderful trip is this week! But for some reason, I can’t make myself begin packing? What’s up with…

Have I mentioned what an incredible klutz I am? Today I stumbled on a curb and took a bad fall. Both hands are bruised and my left hand is probably sprained and it is difficult to type. So it is a good thing that I’m taking a little vacation tomorrow and won’t be making paper…

I had the root canal. I lived. It was not so bad, and it turns out that once she got inside it she found that I had two dead nerves and one live nerve, which was why the tests were not accurate. She said that I probably would have had a lot of pain in…

Okay, I’m having the root canal done tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. whether I need it or not, just to rule it out if for no other reason. After that, I can start mustering up the courage to go back to the orthopedic surgeon for another steroid shot in the hip. Moving on… Yesterday I…