A few years ago I was cleaning out a storage space. I came across a large rectangular box that held a few canvasses. In the usual chaos of life that box had apparently been overlooked, and shoved to the back of our pole barn. I hauled out the dusty oversize box and after a sneezing fit pulled out everything inside only to discover the box held more than stretched canvas on frames. A nervous tiny […]
I spent a good part of a very hot June day on the back patio of our house cutting in paint around edges, doorframes, electrical boxes, natural gas and other various pipes and conduit housing all kinds of hoses and wires that make our household run. I moved and climbed up and down the ladders of different heights to get to all the angles. There was very little breeze. I was sweaty and it was […]
I have tried to start this blog for an embarrassingly long time. This attempt will most likely wither on the vine like all the others. While this is not a terribly auspicious beginning I press on in spite of myself. For someone who can’t seem to stop writing, and can’t seem to do anything with it, the guilt adds up over the years along with binders and file folders. I like hard copy. Self reproach […]
The Spill... 