Stories from someone just fumbling through
At the end of each year I plan to reward the person who commented on my blog the most. It could be either this blog or my http://www.pos-energies.com blog or both. I just want to know that you are out there and that I'm not just writing in a vacuum (that would suck...what a stupid… Continue reading The Award Goes To…
Tomorrow is the monthly Saugerties Winter Farmers Market from noon to 4 pm at the Senior Center (207 Market Street). The theme of the market is upcycling. There will be sewing machines available and teachers there to show you how to mend your clothes or how to make them into something new, if need be.… Continue reading I’ve got goodies for you…
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's the rundown: ♥ The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,400 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. ♥ In 2012,… Continue reading 2012 Sweet Pea’s Annual Blog Report
Personal writing in the public eye requires thoughtful wording, courage in your convictions, and a willingness to take some knocks along the way, even from people you've never met before. For me it's not about self-affirmation or to show people just how wonderfully exciting my life is (that would definitely not be the case). I… Continue reading Why in the heck do I blog?
Having been a turtle lover all my life and a turtle biologist for a portion of it, I've been waiting for someone to do this study. Thank you Nathan Weaver! I will never forget getting the phone call from my heart-broken brother telling me how he risked life and limb to rescue a snapping turtle… Continue reading The Dark Side of Human Nature
This t-shirt quilt took me 6 months to make and I was soooo glad to finally present it to its rightful owner on Christmas morning. The quilt was a gift from my supervisor Reidin to her husband Danny. The first day I met her she sent me home with a box of Danny's t-shirts and… Continue reading Memory Quilt
You hopefully will be able to find me at the Saugerties Farmers Market this Sunday (December 16th) from noon to 4 pm at the Saugerties Senior Center (207 Market Street). The house is going to be so jammed packed with vendors that they even ran out of tables for all of them. This is one… Continue reading This weekend
December marks the one year anniversary of leaving my seemingly perfect job at the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, New York and moving four hours away to live in an old barn with three other people. My main goal was to remain jobless as long as humanly possible. What in God's green earth was… Continue reading The Year in Review
If you live in the Finger Lakes Region, you won't want to miss this holiday craft sale. The Grey Barn Artisan Craft Fair is by far my favorite event of the year (The CNC Maple Fest is my close second!) so much so that I'm traveling 4 hours each way to participate. The people are… Continue reading The 4th Annual Grey Barn Craft Fair
For most of my life I observed the mantra that nothing was worth reading unless it was true. However, thanks to my brother, I'm now a reader of fantasy books. A few years ago he sent me about twenty books that I was all but forced to read. He would call me every week to… Continue reading I ♥ Fantasy
The Unmaker 