Materfamilias Writes

Error of my Ways — What I Wore, and perhaps Shouldn’t Have

Error of my Ways — What I Wore, and perhaps Shouldn’t Have

 The “big event” I was charged with coordinating happened last night. Actually, there were two events, over the last two days, and the day before that I picked up the visiting speaker from the airport…

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Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us. . . Age and All!

Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us. . . Age and All!

Have you seen this brilliant time-lapse sketching of a woman’s life from infancy to old age? The video is well worth the four minutes’ viewing time — magical! Or have you looked at this New…

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Autumn Running, Thinking, Working, Retiring. . . . Blazing Colourfully. . . .

Autumn Running, Thinking, Working, Retiring. . . . Blazing Colourfully. . . .

 I was home getting a drink and using the toilet in between loops of my long run this morning when the slanting sunlight of an early Fall morning lit the autumn foliage in the back…

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Denim Skirt, Easy, Eh?

Denim Skirt, Easy, Eh?

This denim skirt (Mother, Easy A, hence my little pun above, wince. . . ) kept catching my eye — I think I saw it first on Girls of a Certain Age and then it showed…

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Paul’s Fish and Green Tomato Curry

Paul’s Fish and Green Tomato Curry

Some of you asked for my husband’s fish and green tomato curry recipe when I posted someautumn culinary adventures recently. He played coy for a bit, but has agreed to share, admitting that he found…

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