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unpacking

My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance. - Maira Kalman, The Principles of Uncertainty I returned from …

shrinky dinks – part one

Invisible threads are the strongest ties - Friedreich Nietzsche   I’m a talker. Born to talkers. The types who will strike up conversations with strangers in line at the post office, which made me cringe with embarrassment until the day I realized that I had become them. I have fascinating …

playing fair

Fairness puts the twinkle in the stars. - unknown Life is not fair. Whenever I hear those words I think of the first time I remember hearing them. I was about ten, leaving a carnival, all the other girls piling into the seatbelt-free space in the back of a station …