a peek inside the fishbowl

We all spend too much at Christmas, don’t we? I think we can all agree that the best gifts are sometimes the ones that we make ourselves. I thought I’d share with you a few of my favourite crafty ideas just in time for the holidays. Paper Boxes Working with paper gives me a particular […]

I keep a notebook on my bedside table, because when the lights go out I am inevitably struck with an idea. And if I don’t write it down that very minute it is lost forever. Here’s last night’s scrap, written in the dark. My reminder of what I wanted to write about today: I was […]

I liked Robyn’s description of this illness: “the sick.” It’s such an accurate way of describing this, this thing that has made me feel so lousy for so long. All told, it’s a cold. A lousy sonafabitch at that. And I thought I could burn my way through it, but it’s not working. I’ve totally […]