When out-of-town friends visit in the Washington, DC, area we almost always take them sightseeing. You could hardly get friends more out-of-town than Melissa James and her husband. Melissa hails from Australia and has been a good friend of mine for over ten years now. She has visited me before and we have toured the [...]
I haven’t blogged about sightseeing in a long time, but I have a wonderful day to share. Last Saturday was about the most beautiful day possible in Virginia. Temperatures in the 70s, blue skies with fluffy white clouds. My husband and I went to Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon is, of course, was the plantation home [...]
Today the dh and I are on the road, traveling to the Atlanta area of Georgia to visit relatives. It’s a trip we’ve made many times and we’ve developed a pattern of driving to Georgia in two days, but driving home in one day. I don’t know why the trip is less taxing when we [...]
Yesterday I was on my way out to a Merle Norman store when I backed up into my daughter’s boyfriend’s company car. I didn’t do a great deal of damage; just a dented fender on his car and put scratches on mine, but it definitely put a pall on my day. My advice is, always [...]
I am sooo not a cook. You have probably heard me say this often, if you have read my blogs. There is one dish, though, where my culinary creativity does me well. Salads. As I’ve been watching my weight, I’ve been eating a lot of salads and I like to have fun with what I [...]
I’m the first to admit that I watch too much TV and, what’s worse, my TV habits are bizarre. I watch very little network TV, for example, and I never watch sitcoms and very few series. Except this year I’m hooked on Once Upon A Time and Grimm. Interesting that two shows with fairy tale [...]
I love to watch the Academy Awards, even if I seem to see fewer of the movies every year. I’m looking forward to this Sunday’s ceremony, although the only nominated movie I’ve seen is War Horse, which I loved. Now that I’ve turned in my book, I feel free to think about going to movies. [...]
The book is turned in. On Time. Thanks to a marathon writing spree in which I set almost everything aside to Get The Work Done. While writing, I spurred myself on with fleeting fantasies about all the ways I would reward myself when the book was finished. You can read about that here. What I’ve [...]
I’m still busy finishing my “Marquess and Governess” story, but I’ve also been thinking about things that make me smile. There are important things that make me happy, of course–my family, my friends, my faith, my country, my writing career, for example–but today I’m thinking about the silly little things. My New Dishes – I [...]
I’m feeling much better than last week when I could barely talk. Luckily, I recovered by Christmas day and was able to make the big dinner for eleven family and friends. My big Christmas gift was a set of Lenox Butterfly Meadow dishes. I’m going to have fun filling in with serving dishes and bowls [...]
