Love

This is an interesting long weekend. Valentine鈥檚 Day and Family Day. One thing leads to another, if you catch my drift. What? I鈥檓 just pointing out the obvious.聽

Art

I was only trying to help; I just happened to marry a man who does not want my help at the times when I genuinely feel I would be most helpful to him. That鈥檚 what makes our life together so much fun. Ask him, he鈥檒l tell you.聽

Cookies

This Christmas, the gift that I鈥檓 most grateful for was not one wrapped and placed under the tree. Things didn鈥檛 make this holiday special for me; friends did. Kindness and inclusion are the acts that I will remember.

Fat chance

There is a quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi: 鈥淚f you don鈥檛 ask, you don鈥檛 get it.鈥 I鈥檓 not sure that was Gandhi鈥檚 exact wording, and I鈥檓 not sure he would appreciate my use of the phrase, but I thought I鈥檇 test this theory out with my spouse this Christmas.聽

Townie

The Carpenter and I are about to be townies again. We鈥檙e packing up our life on the farm, we鈥檝e re-homed all our feathered friends (honestly the hardest part of all), and we鈥檙e moving back to the town where we first landed in 色控传媒County 23 years ago.

Ushered in

I owe you an end to my story of how I met my Carpenter. I鈥檓 grateful to those of you that have read along these past two weeks. The feedback has been fun. So let me close this chapter for you.