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A place to make, to dream, to breathe
Last winter, this little studio came to be. The idea for this sweet building was born on a gloomy January day amid the COVID crisis. We had made it through one year of lockdown and another was looming. Without warning I had an utter meltdown one morning. Loneliness, worry, frustration with a too small and…
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Making Christmas
In September of this year, my mother moved into a senior community. It was a challenging and necessary move. What was particularly difficult and stressful for Mom was the extensive paring down of belongings and loved collections that simply had to be done. Moving from a sizeable condo to a diminutive one bedroom apartment, made…
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Shopkeeping: Holiday 2022
I had hoped to have this posted last weekend, but the destructive windstorm which swept down the island late on Friday the 4th , left much of Whidbey in the dark for days. Like so many, keeping warm and well-fed became the priority. We came through with no major damage and lost no trees, but…