I moan about the City of Portland quite a lot. The city has many problems, the primary one being way too many homeless people. There are too...

I am trying to not spend all my time sewing right now. I am splitting my time between reading/writing and sewing, so the Fire Dance quilt is...

We've lost our way. We had planned to prepare our house for sale and put it on the market this summer, but after a strong start in Janua...

Jeff has wanted to write science fiction for many years. I guess because it was so hot in Portland a couple weeks ago and because we were fe...

As we start settling in for the winter, I figured now was a good time to take a look at a book that shows some good indoor activities. Thi...

Today was cold and wet and dreary, so we decided to take a much-needed respite from house-related tasks—we needed some guilt-free recharge t...

For anybody who has followed the blog for a while, you'll know I'm a research junky. I love combing through old records and books to...

Sharon is a research junky and has found lots of FREE early-1900s books online (this list just keeps growing and growing). Most of these dat...

Today is our 23rd Wedding Anniversary! We've now been married more years than we weren't. We had a lovely visit with a friend for br...

Tonight I found some gorgeous green soapstone available from a company in the Sacramento, California area. Geez, I love the stuff; it looks...

Jeff and I finally got around to signing up for library cards and I have gotten a little carried away with checking out books. Libraries are...

School has started and I seem to have run out of steam on my recreational reading binge. It was a good run. I think I read a total of 11 ful...

Well, I am back in school. I have classes three nights a week: Wednesday is Legal Research and Writing, Thursday is Civil Litigation and Tri...

It's been an interesting week for us. Jeff and I had dental appointments down in Cupertino on Wednesday so I asked my Mom to watch Shast...

I was inspired by the survey on Facebook to try and find the original BBC list. I don't know if I found the correct list, but I was able...

I've gotten into a bit of a reading binge. After I checked out the book for my paralegal class, I picked it up yesterday and didn't ...