Category Archives: Life

Stuff I do, stuff I like, stuff that happens to me. Home, family, friends, travel, photography. Occasionally posts related to my working life will link to my professional blog at masterworkconsulting.com.

Testing new comment-spam controls

Since I’ve started posting more regularly, I’m getting over a hundred spam comments a day on each post, which kinda drowns out the few real comments I get. Yes, I hold first comments from new visitors for moderation, but I’ve … Continue reading

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All I want for Christmas is…

Last week, my husband asked me what I want for Christmas. I told him I’d have to think about it. Oh, I have plenty of things I could put on a gift list: world peace, for example, and a visit to our friends in Colorado… Continue reading

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The Chair

There are a few memories rattling around in my head from the time before I could talk: the sound of my mother’s voice reading to me, the smile on my grandmother’s face, the smell of my grandfather’s pipe, my panda. … Continue reading

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Am I crazy?

I’ve just signed up for two blogging challenges. Two. As you can see by the date of my last post, I haven’t updated this blog since I rearranged the furniture for the summer. That was in July. (For those of … Continue reading

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Rearranging stuff

Last month, I annoyed my husband by shoving around all the furniture in several rooms of our house. Living room The piano went from the middle of the right half of our long living room to the end of the … Continue reading

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