What a strange week this has been!
A little over a week ago, I was going about my business as I always have. I went shopping, showed up at the gym, and even went to the meeting of my local quilt guild. Sure, I was a little more tuned to the news than usual, but none of what they ...
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Easy Vegetable Chicken Soup
Cabin Fever: Enjoying Life Close to Home
As I’m writing this, my family and I have been practicing social distancing for a little over a week.
At first, it wasn’t that difficult. For me, there was even a little undercurrent of excitement about the whole thing. I felt a little like I do when getting ready to hunker down for a ...
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Best Baked Rice Pudding
Like so many people, I’m staying close to home this week, trying to keep my forays into the community limited to only those activities that are truly necessary.
When it comes to cooking, that means I’m trying hard to make do with whatever I’ve got on hand rather than make extra trips to the ...
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10 Ways to Celebrate National Quilting Day – Wherever You Are!
In the immortal words of John Lennon, “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.”
According to my plan, this week was supposed to be a red-letter one for yours truly. Because my birthday, the first day of spring, the completion of the manuscript for my 2021 novel, The Restoration ...
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Leftover Corned Beef Hash With Root Vegetables
I’ve been lucky enough to visit Ireland on several occasions. On every trip, there has been at least one occasion when a tourist mistook me for native-born and asked for directions. It’s an understandable mistake. As my mother has often said, I have the “map of Ireland” on my face.
I’m ...
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Workspace in a Small Space
When my husband and I built our new house, we set out to strategically position our respective small workspace. For me, it was my craft room. For him, it was a small office. Seems easy enough on the surface, right? However, our new house was less than half the size of our previous one so creating ...
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