ReadyMade: Small Spaces

I wandered past a magazine shop today and remembered ReadyMade Magazine had used a quote I gave them about living in small spaces. Low and behold, Oct. was out and here it is.

Written under my aka even, Dahlila Found, it reads:
” At age 36 I took my dog on an extended road trip though the Southwest, [...]

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The First Lemon

I love Myers lemons. I mean, I really love them. My neighbor has a tree smattered in yellow like polka dots. They never eat them. I take them away in full bowls. I squeeze them in water, baste salmon, stir lemon thyme pasta and occasionally make lemon squares.
Three years ago I properly planted seeds I had squeezed from [...]

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Typing The Afternoon Tea

I’ve been working on my cards for Dahlila. They’re fun but they aren’t photographing well. They don’t pop–but then they are typed, HAND typed on an old Olympia manual. The fun is fading, as is the ink ribbon. My fingers hurt and I don’t think the antiquity of it all is appreciated, really. The computer [...]

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Way Better Than Christmas

I woke up this Sat. morning to see my burgundy wrist warmers smack in the middle of the Etsy homepage treasury. How very cool is that? And I sold a bracelet. I’d love to sit around and be very proud of myself, but I’ve got work to do. Still, I’m smiling inside.  d.

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Happy Storm Watch

It’s Saturday and our impending storm is still . . . impending. The clouds are high and dark, chilly, light wind. I’m tickled. The big storm hits tonight. And as I sit here Psycho is playing on TCM. Janet Leigh just got it in the shower. I love it when weather matches a movie. The first [...]

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My First Etsy Sale!

I’m very excited. I just made my first Etsy sale. The lemongrass wrist warmers pictured in yesterdays post. I promptly mailed them off and am very pleased.
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On our way home from coffee today, Zephyr and I ran into ANOTHER stray dog. That’s THREE in five days!

He’s a handsome guy, but he and Zephyr weren’t melding [...]

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Cocoa Dispenser Happiness (Fun in the Mud)

So much for the sun. It made a small visit, then left in a whirl of wind and cold drizzle. And I bought cafe flowers! Now, they are huddled beneath a bench, wishing, surely, they were back at Target nestled between their seedling siblings.
So, I had to get Zephyr outdoors today, even for a short [...]

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Edit, edit, edit (Coffee and Love Letters)

As a writer I am a pesky editor. I am constantly going back and rewording items that most won’t even read. Plus, now that I’ve admitted I’m a writer, YOU are now searching for errors, aren’t you? Please don’t. You will surely find some. Contrary to popular belief, I’m not perfect–even when I really, really [...]

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Bigger is not necessarily better

I love this snippet. I have it taped to my fridge. It makes me sigh with happiness:
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 ”The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things…the trivial pleasures like cooking, one’s home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.”
Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

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