Roving Lemon's Big Adventure

  How it started In the first days of empty nesting, having deposited Miss B into university life hundreds of miles away, I decided that it ...

  Handmade taggy for a new baby in my neighborhood—plus the all-important book I’m so far from being in a state of flow on anything I’m tryi...

  The table runner that I used to teach myself three different quilting methods; it is full of mistakes and makes me happy every time I look...

Unquestionably frivolous—but also a provider of great satisfaction and joy “‘In a time of destruction, create something.’ To be creative is ...

Thank you for your patience while I took *checks notes* eleven months to post an update. I’ll try to keep it informative without becoming vo...

DP, Miss B, and I often joke that we’re “not a math family.” Words, rather than numbers, are our preferred medium, by a long way, to transmi...

  Well, that was an unplanned hiatus. Here’s a quick recap of key events since my last post: The month of June was dominated by a two-week t...

A while back I learned a technique from a counselor: I was struggling to deal with a crisis situation and she asked me to start processing b...

I know that I have infinite company in feeling that the roller coaster of the last two years has thrown this balance off completely, that th...

March got away from me, so here are a few recent highlights: I’m continuing to find new uses for my sourdough starter and this one is right ...

This week was another busy one - a visit from our oldest nibling , more mitigation on the recent water issue, plus the usual round of work a...

My corner of northern Virginia has 15 more minutes of daylight today than we did last Sunday - a useful reminder of the impact that a seemin...

This weekend marks 50 weeks of quarantine life - just two weeks shy of a full year since we went into lockdown - and the final weekend of th...

Sorry I went quiet there for a bit; most of January felt like walking through a dark tunnel of anxiety. January 6 was a realization of so ma...

  Coming to the end of a much-needed holiday break spent in more or less the same routine we've been in since mid-March (today is Day 29...