July 2011

The Best Day Ever.

This is my five-year-old nephew’s favorite line this week. The first time Alex said it was last Friday as we left the Oregon Zoo. We’d spent four and a half hours roaming though the zoo, ogling the fruit bats as they devoured broccoli and bananas, meditated on the giraffe’s less-than-graceful gait, rumbled along the train […]

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Telling the Story

Three years since starting my memoir about our adventures in Vietnam, it’s time to get serious about finishing this enormous project. Today I pulled out the myriad versions of chapter after chapter, hoping to bring some order to it all. Seeing it all lying there made me realize just how much writing I have done

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Oh Yes, Brownies!

[Sorry for the lousy ipod pic, the good camera was with its owner today.] It’s been nearly four years since I had a “real” brownie, or any other gluten-laden delight for that matter. But I keep trying to find gluten-free versions that will emulate the look and taste of the “real” thing. Yes, yes, I

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Silky silk

A friend and former co-worker gifted me with a load of silk fabric samples. I love the feel and weight of the fabric and designed a couple of new wallet styles to suit them. Manipulating silk and the vast array of colors makes me just giddy–a nice return from a two-week vacation. Funny how a

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Summer Reading

Summer again–the perfect time to do a bit of reading. That’s what I think every year and yet, every summer comes and goes without me doing nearly the amount of reading I’d like to do. Usually I set a lofty goal of a book every two weeks, but that hasn’t happened since I could justify

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