Brains Without Boxes!

Lately I’ve been interested in being a little craftier, making things for myself.  A great example is with my dolls: I collect dolls and I’ve been thinking of things to make for them.  I turned a pair of old flannel pajama pants into a quilt for a doll bed, and I have been trying to come [...]

When I was 17 years old, I got my first ever “real” jewelry from a boy — that is, not some kind of fashion or tourist jewelry.
It was a gold ring with the tiniest diamond solitaire I’d ever seen — probably more of a diamond chip, actually.  My boyfriend at the time had bought it [...]

Watching Panic Room the other night, I had to really appreciate something the little girl said: She told her mom that buying a house wasn’t like going shopping, because you didn’t have to pay the price on the tag.
I think that quote applies to other things as well.  For instance, your business taxes: While it’s [...]

Finding good fill dirt for the barn is an ongoing struggle.  When a horse’s stall has a dirt floor, urine erodes the floor and frequent mucking takes the dirt away.  As a result, fill dirt needs to be brought in to maintain the floor, generally about every year or so.
Unfortunately, you can’t use just any [...]

A little over a year ago, my grandfather’s second wife died.  Since my grandpa had had a number of serious falls and was showing signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s, my mom and her brother and sister decided that the best thing to do was to get around-the-clock in home care for my grandfather.
Unfortunately, we discovered [...]