I saw the most amazing home decor accessory this weekend — a strip of gold cloth artfully laid across the coffee table. It’s not that draping fabric is so unusual, at least not in my place. I mean, there are jackets on the floor, socks stuffed in corners, t-shirts lolling languorously wherever a person still [...]
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Home Decor for the Rest of Us
October 4th, 2011
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Posted in humor, Lifestyle, Middle Aged Plague | Tags: accessory, art, artful embellishment, artist, blogging, Carolyn Henderson, children, culture, current events, customers, daily life, decor, fabric, family, gold, home, home decor, humor, life, lifestyle, magazine, messy, messy house, middle age, motherhood, news, painting, people, personal, Polish pottery, relationships, sofa table, Steve Henderson, teapot, toddlers
Baby Boomer Grandparents — Like everything else, we do it our way
September 21st, 2011
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There’s dried fettuccini on the bathroom floor, which is a variation from the usual wet towels, but this time it’s not the teenagers’ fault. Toddler has been rummaging around the cupboards, plunging fat sticky hands in the oatmeal, tossing raisins at the dog, and now playing pick up sticks with the pasta. I think I [...]
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Empty Nest Syndrome: Joie de Vivre Is Bittersweet
August 29th, 2011
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We just finished an unexpected visit with College Girl, an acronym she prefers to The Middle Child. Since she has headed off to the university, the four of us remaining have settled down to a quiet, smooth-running routine, something that was shot to pieces within the first hour of her dumping the dirty clothes bag [...]
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