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  • A Colourful Valentine’s Day

    I thought these two recent paintings were appropriate for Valentine's Day. Puppy Love, my grandson and his little girlfriend:   Wedding flowers, a sentimental gift:  

  • Young grasshopper – what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

    This painting reminds me of the student’s name in the Kung Fu Movie. I signed up for three watercolour workshops with an accomplished Palm Springs area artist, Diane Morgan, who doesn’t announce the subject matter until you arrive at the class. An interesting strategy, because if I had known we were painting grasshoppers, I would…

  • Los Algodones Dental Work – Do’s and Don’ts – Part two

    Do: – go to Algodones for dental work, but make sure you know the name of the dentist that will actually do the work. Check out his/her credentials in advance. My daughter saw a dentist in Cancun, claiming to have attended the University of Michigan and having an affiliation with the ADA. A check online…

  • Los Algodones Dental Work – Do’s and Don’ts – Part one

    Reasonably priced dental care, prescription drugs and optometry services lure uninsured and senior Canadian and US travellers to this "quaint" Mexican border town where there are 300 dental clinics in about six square blocks. There are more dentists here per capita than anywhere else in the world. The town is so geared to dental patients,…

  • One armed living – seven days in

    Thanks for the well wishes and encouragement. So, seven days post CMC joint replacement, here are my impressions: Call me naive, but I was thinking of this as thumb surgery, but it really is a whole hand operation. It will be awhile before the other four fingers are able to function. Has to do with…

  • One handed blogging

    It is just shy of 24 hours ago when I left the hospital with a replaced CMC joint  (the base of the thumb, where it meets your wrist). Interesting experience in many ways. A coworker was also having outpatient surgery this past week, in the same health region. She was instructed to shower the night before…

  • Not your mother’s sausage

    When I was growing up, way back when, sausage meant three choices:   Puerto Rican chorizo canned in solid orange fat, Polish kielbasa, or sagey breakfast sausages from Jimmy Dean. In the 70's I moved to Omaha and craved the apple potato ones from Stoysich House of Sausage. Forty years later and the current varieties contain a conglomeration…

  • Missed it again, and this time it was a big one.

    Number ten – just realized that this past September, I missed  Life's a Stitch's ten year anniversary. Once upon a time, in the beginning of knitting blogdom, we posted "100 Things About Me." I came up with 59 and over the decade even some of them have changed: I am now: a mother of three,…

  • I saw you

    An Election Day story: It's municipal election day in British Columbia. Takes me back to another election, a Provincial one, the same day as the demise of our sweet Gracee dog. C was too upset to to cast his ballot, but somehow Mr. Bry age 23 at the time,  and I, in need of deep…

  • For me, life is a stitch, but it’s also a brushstroke…

    As far as watercolours go, this was a fun one to paint. Mt. Shuksan, Whatcom County, Washington:  The subject of my last painting was here for Halloween weekend, as his mom flew in for work: If years ago someone had asked me to envision my ideal scene of grandparenthood, this would have been it. Reading…