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“Embroidered so with flowers…”
I like nothing better than a good embellishment. Not the Christmas sweater variety, but a slightly fancy, pretty little thing on a belt, handbag, or shoe. And mostly I like flowers. The problem…
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School Days
I attended Marlborough Jr. High School in the late sixties. It was run by the strong arm of Principal Leo Brennan, a stoic ex-military, ex-professional football player of enormous size and few words.…
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Linda
Linda rented the upstairs apartment – the one with the palladian window, French doors, clawfoot bathtub, and hardwood floors. The day she moved in, I just knew she belonged there. I glimpsed her…
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Mrs. Delany
I must tell you about a book that has been entrancing me for several months. “The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins her Life Work at Age 72” by Molly Peacock has been on…
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Hat Lady
I am a hat lady. I wear them. A lot. I love straw hats in the summer but I especially love winter hats. I would not have been caught dead in a hat…
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A Time and Place
I put my homecity in the rearview mirror right after college and until recently, I never looked back. It wasn’t a town but a mini-city and one with a identity crisis, small town…
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Winter Becomes Us
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invinciblesummer. ~Albert Camus I have no quarrel with winter and I love that January’s promise is to begin anew.…
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Dress Code
Tonight is Christmas Eve and even though I have a small house with limited seating, my annual party has a dress code. I don’t expect ball gowns and tuxedos but I do expect…
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When Christmas Happens
I never know the exact moment when Christmas happens for me. It could be the day I trim the tree, the afternoon I settle in with Victoria’s A Woman’s Christmas, or the private…
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Thanksgiving and Relish Trays
My older brother played football in high school so those four years, Thanksgiving dinner was not at my grandmother’s house but at ours. There were some things we could count on at our…
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The Gardener
An old Greek Revival house came into my possession by marriage. Austere, dark, and vacant for over 20 years, it was a place I would never have chosen myself to live as a…
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So nice to come home to…
Please forgive me for indulging myself here. We lost our beloved Buddy, our cat, a few days ago. Even though he was 17, it was sudden and we only had about two hours…
