The Musical Advent Calendar
I have been making a musical advent calendar for more than a decade. In that time I’ve sorted songs by place, time depth, mood, theme, characters, and more. This year, I plan to offer new songs, or at least new-to-me […]
He Comes to Us as One Unknown
Albert Schweizer wrote, in The Quest of the Historical Jesus, “He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the […]
Cataract Surgery Diary: Second Eye Planned
I went in to have the first eye checked and the second eye scheduled. I was able, with squinting and good guessing, to read the 20/20 line with my left eye. The left eye is my near vision eye, and […]
IRL Hyperlinks
Part of my recent sleep issue is my husband’s bad cough. It keeps me awake. Since we’ve been dog sitting, my solution of leaving the noisy marital bed for the guest room has been hampered by the guest room’s bed […]
Cataract Surgery Diary: Eat, Move, Sleep
What with the surgery and the holiday, I’ve been doing the Eat, Move, Sleep stuff differently. You will notice that I am hardly moving at all. Sitting on the sofa talking with people is the main thing I’ve been doing. […]
Touristing
For Small Business Saturday we visited a local grist mill and bought plenty of whole grains. We went upstairs for beans and cornbread and shared a dish of peach cobbler with premise-made ice cream. Then we strolled up and down […]
Black Friday, AKA Weaving Day
DIL did some Black Friday shopping, and there was some Black Friday ecommerce going on, but mostly we had Crafts Day. I made breakfast casseroles, sausage, and biscuits, and we tried out some weaving. This was the idea of #2 […]
Thanksgiving 2018
We had Thanksgiving dinner at #1 daughter’s house. There were three types of cranberry sauce, three types of pie, and multiple vegetables dishes: butternut squash and brussels sprouts with balsamic-maple glaze, sweet potatoes duchesse, orange-glazed carrots, Holiday Slaw, quinoa-stuffed mushrooms, […]
Cataract Surgery Diary: Left Eye Surgery
I fasted, worked, and cleaned until time to go to the surgery center. I was mentally braced for a long wait because that is so often how things are in medical situations, but not in this case. It was brisk. […]
Cataract Surgery Diary: Check-in
The day after my surgery I went for the one-day check-in. “Your vision is still blurry,” the surgeon remarked cheerily. “That doesn’t worry me at all!” I think surgeons must have lots of confidence. Clearly, he felt that his not […]