Materfamilias Writes

Snowy Outside, Book-ish Inside. . . .

Snowy Outside, Book-ish Inside. . . .

Today’s post is a Two-For-One! As I announced in January, I’m going to experiment this year with including my Reading Blog posts here, trying to decide if, eventually, I might merge the two.  But knowing…

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Painting Our Way into a (Quiet Reading) Corner

Painting Our Way into a (Quiet Reading) Corner

Can you believe that we’re coming up to five years of city life? Truly, it seems just yesterday — and/but also another lifetime — that I was in my February garden and on the beach…

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Of Root Canals and Roses. . . .

Of Root Canals and Roses. . . .

You may have noticed, if you follow me on Instagram, that I’ve got some dental woes going on this week.  These are too tiresome to recount here (in brief: nearing the end of the first…

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Paris and Poppies and a Pondering or Two. . . .

Paris and Poppies and a Pondering or Two. . . .

Sunny today again, and again the thermometer will climb into the low 20s. Very pleasant. Warmer than it was last week when I wore this comfortable combo.  Yeah, I might be guilty of defaulting to…

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Instead of Sicily. . . .

Instead of Sicily. . . .

This would have been our fourth week in Sicily. We’d just be settling into our AirBnB in Palermo, getting ready to explore the famed markets of that Mediterranean city. We’d be tracking the progress of…

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