by Debra Darvick | Jan 25, 2013 | Musings
The gadget in the photograph is fifty years old if it’s a day, a wonderful hand-me-down dust pan given to us by an elderly cousin, now of blessed memory. Hy cobbled it together from a left over broom handle and a cut away oil can. Hy and his wife Dora were leaving...
by Debra Darvick | Jan 20, 2013 | Musings
365, it seems, is the new 24/7. I’ve been reading about the concept of “365 projects,” the blogged adventures of very zealous and committed folks who pick a passion and stay true to it for an entire year, each and every day. Think the effervescent Gretchen Rubin of...
by Debra Darvick | Jan 13, 2013 | Musings
I realized a few years ago that I’d become one of those women of a certain age that used to unnerve the Pampers out of me when Elliot was a baby. There I’d be in line at Kroger, or Walgreen’s or anywhere that a cross section of humanity gathered, and...