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birds are people too
A long time ago I read somewhere that when baby birds first hack their way out of the shell, the first thing they see they will think is their “mother.” Wikipedia tells me now that in psychology, it’s...
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reuminating on feminism and old habits
Earlier this week a friend sent me these basic rules for clotheslines–bringing up memories of a past life–that I’ll bet many of you remember as well. Judging from the tacked on comments and additions,...
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rememembering my long in the tooth whistling dentist
On Monday she’s having her favorite Vietnamese noodle salad with crisp Saigon spring rolls at her favorite Indochinese Bistro, and she takes her leftovers home to finish later. A microwave warmup turns...
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good reads and time-wasting projects for lazy unproductive people
The best part of having a couple of bad weeks of teeth-and-jaw-pain is not feeling bad about doing the things you most enjoy to the exclusion of almost all else. Reading in my case. I often put holds...
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a thought for the day
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956) Filed under: Random Tagged:...
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what does a woman want?
What a great question. What would women answer? They’d be as varied as the woman you talk to at any given moment. Since 2007 I’ve been nursing my little Wintersong along, trying to figure out what–if...
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roming around Italy with celebrity lookalikes
It’s been such a long time since I last posted here, July 9 to be exact, that I don’t know quite where and how to begin. If we were at a party, the usual weather-related repartee would be a reasonable...
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the magic of rainy days in Venice
The week in review: It’s been fairly quiet this week along the Wasatch. The snowstorm that swamped us for three days last weekend finally quit sometime Sunday, and we were able to get out of the house...
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our cooking adventure in Italy
It’s that time of year again! Things begin to get hectic–lists to be made, stuff to buy, special projects relating to Christmas–and everything needs to be done first. We did take time out for a movie...
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the rest of the story: Italian cooking class recipes
In response to a reader request, I’m posting the remainder of Chef Andrea’s Italian cooking class recipes, plus his suggested wine pairings. Hopefully these wines or suitable substitutes are available...
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White Christmas with Wintersong
To paraphrase Dr. Seuss on the Grinch’s reaction to the magic of Christmas, and despite the conflicts hurled by grinches around the world, it still comes–without ribbons, without tags, without...
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snowbound!
Today is Friday, it’s January 11, 2013, and we’re about as snowbound as we’ve ever been in the seven years we’ve lived in Utah. We should have paid more attention to the weather predicting turtle who...
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in human nurturing vs nature, nature wins
Much has been accomplished since I last was here. The big painting project I’d been planning for ages is done. I didn’t go for the purple I’d been looking at last year. Instead we chose a sedate taupe...
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at last, a happier ending for Nance Dude
I was speaking with a friend a few hours ago about my blog, and she wanted to know why I wasn’t posting much anymore. Hubby was quick to offer, “she’s just being lazy.” Yes, I had to admit that is part...
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is nature a cure for technology overload?
I often wonder, and I’ve heard others express the same sentiment, what did I ever do without computers?! I can’t imagine my life without them. My grandchildren have never known what life was like...
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parent’s worst nightmare…revisited
I received the following message in a forwarded email in April 1993 when my daughters were both in college–one at OWU (Delaware, Ohio) and the other at Stanford (Palo Alto, California). The message was...
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honing the writing: figuring out what to write
Let’s not regard this as a real post; let’s regard it as homework, since that’s what it is. That way, anyone who reads it is helping with my homework. Our new season of classes began yesterday, and my...
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hook beginnings and learning what to leave out
Two more very important facets of writing skills were covered in Thursday’s writing class: “jump-starting imagination to capture the reader,” and that hook beginning I mentioned yesterday, and the...
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springing back to wintersong musings
We had our final class Thursday, and now that our brains are all wrinkled with new knowledge on the economy, the latest in scientific research, and the uppity women in ancient Egypt who deigned to be...
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learning more about “steering” the writing craft
In her book on writing, Steering The Craft, Ursula Le Guin says: The chief duty of a narrative sentence is to lead to the next sentence. Beyond this basic, invisible job, the narrative sentence can do...
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