I am sitting here on my couch, fully dressed and cuddled up under a fleece blanket with the heat going. Yet still I am freezing.

Why?

Because I have single pane windows in my poor old house.

Sometime this week, I hope, new windows are to be delivered. Then sometime next weekend my lovely friend [...]

Do you ever find yourself doing something despite everything telling you you shouldn’t? I don’t even mean big things, sometimes it is the littlest of things. Of course when you ignore your instinct you inevitably feel bad about even the littlest of things.

We all want to think our instincts are valid, we want to [...]

For years I have had a silver desk style lamp that lives on my bedside table.

It has moved houses with me quite a few times now. It has survived being tossed into laundry baskets and moving boxes, it has always worked perfectly demanding only a replacement halogen bulb once. It dutifully sat beside [...]