Posted in Personal, food on October 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
What Ernie brought from the Farmers Market this morning. It’s extremely unusual to have kale and tomatoes at the same time of year.
That’s fresh mozzarella cheese in front of the cauliflower.
Posted in Blake, Personal, art, family, reading on October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
(June 12, 2008.) Hundreds of people find this post. I’m astonished. Must be searching on William Blake. Well, if you’re interested, I’ve written a personal essay about Blake’s importance in my life. It’s a brief introduction to Blake, too. You can read the essay here. Now back to the original post.
A couple of months ago, [...]
Posted in Charlestown on October 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It is pouring rain here, thank goodness, as we have been in severe drought for months. So right now it is dark and gloomy, but last year Ernie took some pictures on a walk around our campus which I’d like to show you. We live in such beautiful surroundings.
Posted in book reviews, old age, reading on October 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
No! I Don’t Want to Join a Book Club: The Diary of a 60th Year, by Virginia Ironside, is a funny, FUNNY book. It’s the fictional diary of a woman who has just turned 60 and retired. She doesn’t want to be any younger than she is. She intends to enjoy being old. About book [...]
Posted in Stitching on October 25, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Now I can tell you about this project of last week, a card for Nina, who received it yesterday.
Remember this picture that Nina sent me last month?
I knew when I saw it that I wanted to stitch on it, but it took a while for me to figure out what I wanted to do. After [...]
Posted in CFS, Personal, Stitching, essays, spirituality on October 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I was asked what the ME stands for. This is the new name being promoted for CFS. It stands for myalgic encephalopathy and chronic fatigue syndrome. It is endorsed by the leading researchers and clinicians in this malady. Myalgic refers to the muscle aches and general flu-like achiness of this condition. Encephalopathy means a disorder [...]
Posted in Charlestown, Esther, friends on October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Because Esther insisted that we bring some food and wine home with us, Ernie went to her apartment to return her dish. I asked him to take some pictures to show you what we saw when we got to her apartment yesterday. Here’s the approach to her apartment, headed toward ours.
Esther’s doorway, the door and [...]
Posted in Charlestown, Esther, Personal, food, friends on October 24, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday Ernie and I had martinis with Esther and Gloria in Esther’s apartment. They are neighbors of ours here at Charlestown with whom we visit a few times a year. Here they are with us in our apartment last New Year’s Day.
These are two interesting women. Gloria is 84. Esther will be 98 in December. [...]
Posted in Personal, Stitching on October 22, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Ernie is my hero. He has loved me devotedly for 36 years and has been taking care of me since I became disabled with ME-CFS 15 years ago. Until we moved to Charlestown, he did ALL the domestic chores. He shopped, cooked, cleaned house, did the laundry, hauled the trash to the dumpster, shoveled snow. [...]
Posted in blogging, friends on October 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Though I’ve had this blog only six weeks, I’ve made several new friends online from around the world, through their comments and e-mail messages. This is a great way to meet people who share my interests. But to my surprise, a neighbor here at Charlestown found my blog and sent me a note asking if [...]
