I am looking forward to Thursday.  Are you?  How, even in our fractured and sometimes divisive society, could anyone take exception to Thanksgiving?  Family, food, gratitude.  An awesome combination, in my mind.  The more I think about it, the more I believe Thanksgiving is above reproach.  I understand that some people don’t approve of eating [...]

 
And the answer is…(you guessed it) not much, beyond the fact that these two types of items are in my ebay-listing sights this week.  I put some dolls up on tandemkids today, two especially that are about 100 years old and really lovely.  I am not in any way a doll person – I don’t [...]

So I was finally able to inspire Steven to design a new logo for us and a header for this blog.  All it took was my seriously threatening to pay some designer several hundred dollars.  And, as always, once he put his hand to it the results are fab!  He really is a talented guy.   [...]

 
Steven and I just can’t own enough dogs.  Really.
But before you begin imagining the noise and confusion, the giant bags of dogfood, the shedding…let me clarify.  We do love dogs – the real, living kind – and we have one that we adore.  (check our Personal page for pics of our Princess.)  But the kind of dog [...]