I was reminded recently that I was ‘connected’ — by marriage — to Sam Houston. I remember hearing this in some very vague way and knowing that it was a bit of a joke to whoever was saying it to me. However, in the course of various researches I’ve been doing, I stumbled across Isabel [...]
I had a lovely Easter with good food and small children and lovely relatives for about twenty-seven hours. In that time I washed several particular dishes and cooking pots three or four times because they were the thing I kept needing. I'm still doing the last of the dishes from Monday night. It was the [...]
I've written a fair amount this week but I've also had a few projects going... The potholder loom has been a more interesting project than I expected. That is, I expected to make potholders. I've ended up doing a lot of color experimentation because the loops I use have come in packages with highly random [...]
Martha Sylvia was born on March 3, 1918 in Chicago. She was the daughter of Swedish immigrants, and grew up during the Depression, in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. I always thought the name Sylvia was absolutely lovely, and she always hated it. She said she didn't know where her mom got it from. Martha put herself [...]
It’s February and I can’t believe it. If I blink I expect that February will be gone, seeing that it is a short month anyway. I think part of my trouble is that we don’t actually have a 2026 calendar on the wall. Normally, both my husband and I grab calendars from church and then [...]
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