A timid child, I obeyed my parents’ rule not to enter the woods that bordered on our property, but sometimes I stood at the edge and looked in.
One evening I walked about ten feet into the woods and stopped. I saw the fading sun filtered though the overgrowth, striking the ground in shafts of [...]

I have been really busy this week getting ready for our trip….
Funnel and I are pretty excited.
We’ve never had a long vacation together.
But I have a fear of Kirpi dying while we are gone.
(because Odie died when I was in Hungary, freshman year)
This silly little creature has stolen my heart. I love her to [...]

In honor of it being Wednesday ((always a long day at work, for some reason)) I am going to share with you some of my favorite websites for amusement, should boredom ever strike you:
Passive-Aggressive Notes:

True Bride Confessions:

Over-heard in New York:

and some others:
Cute Overload
McSweeney’s Lists and Reviews of New Food
Post Secret
True Office Confessions
What are your favorite [...]

This weekend, I got pretty far on a batch of my little robots/dinosaurs/birds. They are really fun to make, but time-consuming and I can only do so much by hand. After the detail-work, I really need a sewing machine to sew their bodies together, and that will have to wait until the next [...]