I want to be home sewing. Sewing anything. I have two parts of my Halloween costume cut out on my living room floor and I want to be home sewing those. Or I want to be sewing some quilted pumpkin wall hangings, some small ones for friends and a big one for my wall. Or [...]

There are a lot of smells I really love. And after thinking about them, I think the reason I love them is because of the memories I associate with them, not for the smell itself. Coppertone sunscreen smells like summer for me. Lilacs smell like the backyard of the house my mom grew up in [...]

The spam comments I’ve been getting lately have cracked me up. I’m not going to approve them, so I thought I’d put a few of them here. On my blog about aardvarks and Kokomo: Like what you have to say. Your blog makes good since [sense] to me. On a blog about Independence Day: Good [...]

I distinctly remember writing in our journals in my fourth grade class and trying to remember how to spell the word “sure.” That word confused me a great deal. It starts with a “sh” sound, so I always spelled it “shure.” I figured it out eventually and I don’t think I’ve made that mistake since, [...]

Last week it finally dawned on me how to express what really bothers me about the education system in Utah – no works. They talk about valuing families and education and our children, but they can’t put their money where their mouth is. They have faith in the system, but don’t put forth the works [...]

I just learned that cutting four yards of chiffon on the bias and cutting those strips in half and putting them around your waist and putting on a silver satin blouse is real fun. I feel so pretty. I’m a pretty princess. This is going to be a fun Halloween costume this year.

I think the title of this post is a funny phrase. At physical therapy yesterday I learned I don’t have a stiff neck though. Well, I do. It’s stiff in the morning when I wake up, real stiff. It’s okay around the middle of the day, and by the end of the day I just [...]

I have had this website for three years today. I like to think it has some use to the general public, particularly the book section, but I don’t know. I should reach the 10,000 official hit mark some time today. I get more hits from people looking for pictures of Kate Barlow right now, and [...]

I commonly refer to my time spent performing in Tony and Tina’s Wedding as my “drunk slutty nun” days, because that is a brief description of the character I played. But I don’t think I’d be that kind of drunk if I ever took up drinking. Not that I ever plan on taking up drinking. [...]

There are several children’s book series that I thought I was caught up on, or that I at least knew there were books out there I needed to get and read. But while I’ve been busy doing homework, all those authors went and wrote more books. I discovered this tonight while updating my Amazon wish [...]