ABC Along

I made my first quilt in 1998. Since then I’ve made lots and lots of quilts, all by machine. Since I started knitting so much, though, I hardly ever quilt. In fact, I have 3 quilts in progress right now and I don’t think I’ve touched any of them in months. But you know what?…

There are all kinds of pizza and everyone has a favorite. Mine is bar pizza because it’s the pizza I ate when I was a kid. And, if I’m going to be really specific, my favorite is bar pizza from The Cape Cod Cafe in Brockton. Nope, it’s not on the Cape but they’ve been…

Martha’s Vineyard I have always lived near the ocean. Well, near enough, anyway. We can be at a couple of different beaches within 40 minutes. And we can be on Cape Cod in under an hour. I guess, when you spend your whole life living near the water, you take it for granted. So I…

During these dog days of summer, I feel it necessary to remind you of what we have to look forward to in just a few short months. Remember this? Yeah. That’s a picture of our house from a Nor’Easter that hit in December of 2003. It dumped over 2 feet of snow on us. You…

No big surprise, eh? You all know how I love my martinis. But I’m going to tell you the story behind my martinis. And then I’m going to tell you how to make a martini just like I do. Okay, flashback. January, 2004. I read a book called The Dewey Decimal System of Love by…

As librarians go, I’m fairly unique. You see, most librarians don’t set out to become librarians. It’s usually a mid-life career choice or something that someone sort of backs into, if you will. But not me. I’ve known I wanted to be a librarian since I was in the 4th grade. This is a photograph…

I hope I don’t sound too shameless, but I love kissing my husband. The man can stop me dead in my tracks with his kisses. I am completely incapable of coherent thoughts when Dale works his magic. And there’s nothing more magical than wedding day kisses. June 14, 1997 Our first kiss as husband and…

As you probably all know by now, because I talk about it ad nauseum, I bought myself a Jeep Wrangler last August. I’m pretty sure it was a manifestation of a midlife crisis but whatever. Here’s how it came to be. Dale and I have a niece who lives on Martha’s Vineyard with her husband…

We often feel like we really know each other through our blogs and yet most of us have never met face to face. And, really, when you make friends you have them over to your house. You show them your stuff and you sit and chat. Since you can’t all come over to my house,…

I guess it’s a little known fact that I’m a big fan of women’s college basketball. So, last week when I announced that I was going to the NCAA Women’s Final Four in Boston, people were surprised. I’m sure no one was surprised that I started a sock in honor of the occasion, though. It’s…

I saw my first Great Blue Heron of the year on Monday and, while I know they don’t migrate to and from this area, I don’t generally see them in the winter. The bird was flying over a cranberry bog and it made me realize that spring is really here, today’s temperatures notwithstanding. Great Blue…

Coming up with an entry for the letter E was such a struggle. But F? I had multiple choices for the letter F. I considered “F is for Fishing” and “F is for Flowers” and “F is for Family” but finally decided that “F is for Flannel” because I love the way flannel makes me…