Returning to the Land of the Living.

One of the hard truths about life is that whatever time off you want or need must be paid for somehow. Bills keep rolling in, the mortgage doesn’t stop and food is still a necessity even when the income wanes. After a show and a massive amount of work in 2006, I was beyond burnt…

It’s been a busy few months…..

Since May, I’ve had relatively little time to post. I suppose I could have made more time, but family, being outside, work and the mundane vagaries of everyday living always seemed to get in the way. The main factor has been adding a forty-hour per week job to my already full life. In May I…

Quote from Katherine

Katherine, who understands about as much as she wants to of the ways of birds and bees, uttered the following just now, “A long time ago, Heather was very, very married and then Jean and Eleanor were both born.” Thankfully, Heather is just as very married now, although without more of Katherine’s suggested consequences.

Absentee, that’s me.

Over the past month or so, I haven’t spent much of my spare time in front of a computer. Between Katherine, the dogs, the garden, the unexpected arrival of summer and spending time with John, my free time has more or less vanished. I suspect it’s primarily due to the nice weather and the intensive…

A practical post, or “a ten minute job”

It’s spring cleaning week around here, which means that I do all those things that get done weekly such as cleaning the bathroom, mopping the floors, and vacuuming, as well as those things that I typically never get to (cleaning the heat core and screens of the air exchange, washing walls, cleaning curtains, touching up…