Dewey's Treehouse

1.Why do you blog? Have your reasons changed over time?  This blog is (as it says at the top) eighteen years old. It started when friends bl...

The opportunity came up recently, after a very long time on the ground, to do a little air travel. I decided to pack as minimally as possibl...

1. What do you find is the most boring part of your life at the moment?  Breakfast, probably. Sometimes lunch. Occasionally dinner. 2. Febru...

Spring here can be more like a second winter, which is not as enjoyable as a second breakfast. But in February we do start to see longer day...

1. Tell us anything you want about your January.  OK, since you asked: I have a new book out . Getting there was pretty much my January. Als...

 Blogging over here today.

(Robert Benson, The Night of the Child )

A long time ago here, we made Christmas cookies from one of those magazine articles that use one dough and many variations. This particular...

  1. The Hodgepodge lands on National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Have you visited the memorial? Any desire to do so? Have you visited oth...

Alphabetically by author, this time. Some of these have migrated from previous years' lists, but that doesn't mean I'm not still...

1. Sum up your November in ten words or less.  My orchid retired, but we bought a holiday bucket tree. 2. Are you hosting any holiday partie...

  1. When did you most recently need to 'think fast'? Elaborate. Trying to finish this on Wednesday evening, between a couple of loa...

This Year in Reading If you went just by numbers, it might look like I spent this year doing little but re-reading mysteries, Grace Livingst...

I have two clothes goals right now. One is to make better use of basic/neutral things--to remember to wear them. The other is to wear more o...

1. In two or three sentences describe yourself to someone who has never met you.  Squirrels collect and store whatever they find, sometimes ...