Categories: Creative Musings

• Music… my muse

  The first major purchase I made when I was 15 was a Pioneer 550 Receiver, speakers, turntable & double cassette. (Thank God I missed out on 8 tracks, but I have to admit, I bought Beta vs VHS way back when… bad call there!)   The second major purchase was my first car, which was a 1974 bright turquoise 2 door subaru coupe, my third… a stereo for that car!   Music has always been an essential part of my life.  Fortunately for me, my parents [...]

• Womanity (Think Pink!)

  Last night I attended my first breast cancer support group in Northampton, Massachusetts.  This group is offered as part of “Cancer Connections”.  It has taken me weeks to rearrange my schedule, allowing me to attend.    Alas, last night it was time, and I am so glad that I went!
  When asked if I would like to share my story first, I did so with little trepidation.  Yet how do you sum up almost 18 months of diagnosis, emotions, tests, surgeries, in 5 minutes [...]

• Wikipedia & Googlicious….

  The past few weeks I have been enjoying Wikipedia.  Devouring bio’s, reading on my favorite artists, actors, writers, etc.  Just what did we do before the internet?  I remember the encyclopedias my parents worked many hours to purchase, the same ones my dad built a special bookcase for.  These books were not only an important tool for homework but also they were interesting, there was so much to learn from them.  Today all  I do is walk over to my computer google a name [...]

• Grocery store gremlins

  Today I ran into the local grocery store for a few items and was very pleased to find that it wasn’t that busy!  Bravo!  Still, with no major crowds to contend with, there were two very robust women who always seemed to be wherever I wanted to go.  Okay, let’s just flip my shopping around so I won’t have to keep running into them!  What a brilliant idea and resolution, I thought!   So I sprung ahead 4 or 5 aisles.  Guess what?   I shit [...]

• My Walmart Story -All I wanted was service!

  Jim & I had stopped into Walmart in Keene, NH for our normal supplies.   Being only weeks since losing my kid sister to cancer, I was deep into grief, no where near “myself”…   I headed for the fabric department to pick up some batting for a project I was starting and Jim took the cart as he kindly offered to gather all the household/animal/food stuff we had on our list.  Upon arriving in the department I noticed a woman my [...]

• E is for expectations

  I just poured myself a glass of wine.  I’m trying to compartmentalize my day into one small box that I can store away and yet there is one word that keeps popping up and will not fit… So I have decided to simply break it down…
  I have spent a couple of decades of my life in 12 step programs like AlAnon looking within.  Looking at my expectations of others, are they too high?  too low?  What are my expectations of [...]

• Father Christmas – Seminar Piece

  This is the piece that I will be teaching at JB Wood Products in Attleboro, MA on Satuday, November 6th.
  Call 508-226-3217 for details.   “Father Christmas”……

• Trapped Chilean Miners…..A story of HOPE

  This picture caught my attention yesterday.   This is one of the 33 miners who have been trapped underground in a copper and gold mine in San Jose, Chile for 17 days.   Can you imagine being the loved one of this man?  His wife, daughter, sister, mother, father, friend and seeing this picture?  Chance of survival for this amount of time is very unusual.   Can we possibly fathom what our reaction would be?  I doubt it.  Here is confirmation that he is alive and well.  A picture depicting answered [...]

• A new door opens….

  As he was removing my old front door I couldn’t bear to look.  This door which was believed to have been 60+ years old had not locked in over 15 years, was not able to be fully shut in 6, had broken glass and on two occasions had been clamped and glued together.  It had certainly seen better days.  But I, like the majority of others, am a creature of habit… I resist change.     I was told I would also be losing the relatively new storm door [...]

• Blue skies smiling at me!

  Crisp fall air, blue skies… soon we will be hearing the Canada geese honking, letting us know that Fall is over.  Where did summer go?  It’s time to put away the yellow polka dot bikinis, the sundresses (I wear shorts through mid October… being the rebel that I am!)
  As summer draws to a close we enter my favorite season, Fall.  So vivid the colors of the foliage, the mums, pumpkins… combined with the aesthetics of the coolness on your skin, the [...]