Diego likes Abuela One of the first things that we did was to visit Te Papa. I think we took the bus there. We took the bus somewhere. Diego loves the bus. We stopped along the way to get a bubble tea. Alas, they were closed which was actually a good thing. I think Eina [...]

On the last Tuesday of the month, we do “Body Image”. I hate body image day, but I know it’s good for me to go. Today, we wrote a letter saying good-bye to our ideal body. It was really hard for me. I started to cry. My ideal body is something smaller than I have [...]

But hopefully, the trip to the PT will change that. I fell on my knee about 2 years ago, and it swelled up like an orange. I went to the doc who x-rayed it, took it easy, then resumed my normal activity. It got all better, pretty much by itself. I fell on my knee [...]

The List The Game My Words: Arm Scythe, Awl, Bias, Bobbin Case Chalk, Crochet, Cutting mat, Dart, Ease, Fusible Interfacing, Ham, High Bust, Iron, Markings Measure, Organza, Pattern Weights Rotary cutter Serger Starch, Trace, Trim, Tube turner, Tweezers, Understitch 1 on Day 1. 2 on Day 3. 2 on Day 5.

I loved Grease.

I just know my 5 readers have been dying to see some pictures of my niece and nephew. Ha, ha. My mother and sister are, tho, and I suppose my brother and SIL are, too. Between sending my ‘pooter off to the ‘pooter doc and being on too damn much business travel, I just haven’t [...]

1. Control Panel 2. System 3. Hardware 4. Device Manager 5. Ports (COM & LPT) And from there you can renumber your port. Why, in this age of USB ports, would one want to know how to change a COM port number? I have a pc, not a mac, because of my embroidery software. It [...]

Shame is the emotion that keeps an eating disorder going. One of my many therapists likes to say, “You can’t recover if you are coming from a place of shame.” We did an exercise is group the other day that pushed my shame up so far that I could no longer deny it. It was [...]

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walks from the stream [...]