Pillow Talk

     My older daughter is gorgeous, and endearingly, kind of a geek. Last summer, instead of going off to soccer camp or hanging out at the lake or pool, she chose summer school, to brush up on Algebra II, and went to Robotics camp. I'm amazed how...

       I needed to waste a little time before picking up the daughters after dance class and was in a town with some shopping. This is fairly unusual here in Vermont, both the spare time and the presence of some conventional, mall-based, chain...

     Stockbridge, VT -- ShapeShiftas is pleased to announce the availablility of a very special, limited-edition Eye of the Hurricane Irene pillow. This handcrafted piece is made by Vermont artisans in our Green Mountain swirl-print cotton, with a...

     If you could indulge in just one rich-people's perk, a luxury without cost or bad karma, what would it be? For me, it would be a car and driver, hands down. A daily massage would be my second choice, although if I had a car and driver, I don't...

     It's not an oxymoron to call what we wear here in Vermont "fashion". All apparel can be in a sense called "fashion", and almost everywhere around the world, people wear clothes, so, fashion is everywhere! (This argument was used by a garmento...

      The other day I received this out-of-the-blue solicitation in my inbox -   Hand sewn by survivors of human trafficking... cosmetic and tote bags just in time for your summer vacations and trips to the pool or beach.     I...

      Yesterday, the Garden Goddess Suzanne gave me two beautiful heads of Napa cabbage that I bet would go for $10 each in Whole Foods. She claimed that she has so many she'd give them to her chickens unless I took them. I had to save them...

      Out back, this time of year, we have a lovely pond. It's really a large hole in the ground with a couple of picturesque boulders that fills up with snowmelt and run-off from the hills above. In the spring, this hole is filled with...

 On the Saturday of Irene, I posted a picture of this pillow, called The Eye of the Hurricane, on the ShapeShiftas' Facebook page, with the caption, "This one's for you, Irene." I didn't mean to be irreverant, and I hope it wasn't me who angered the water gods....

     We heard starting about Saturday that maybe we were in for some snow.  It seems late,  the sap was already running, we were in mud boots, and the car was caked in the stuff.  Mostly the snow was gone, certainly along the roadsides...

     Last night I was shopping in my dream. I'm not certain where I was shopping or what I was shopping for, it was more a feeling of being in a store and looking for something that I couldn't find. I imagine that this is a pretty common dream in...