LAURIE ROCKENBECK
My personal and random blog
Family Reunion
About a year ago, I got an email from my aunt about this summer's family reunion. I immediately looked up the Tamaracks Campground at Lake Seeley and picked out what looked to be like an appropriate sized cabin for our family and booked it. Turns out to be a...
Why Writers Love Conferences (or why this writer does, anyway)
I've had just a few different work environments. My first paid job was at House of Fabrics in the mall, my second was at my dad's family practice as a billing clerk and the third was at Quadtek, a small company that had offices in an office park. Oh, and I had a short...
All Clean and Ready to Sew
My last post was all about getting rid of stash. I mentioned that every surface was covered and the picture to the left shows you the before picture of one side of the room. It had clearly ended up being the default place to toss anything with no clearly defined place...
Letting Go of the Stash
A few years ago I was lucky enough to have Hulda Emilsdottir come over and help me organize my house. She's probably the queen of the world when it comes to organizing things and getting rid of stuff. At the time, she said something that I sort of brushed aside or...
Swiss Chard, Potato and Cheese Pie Thing
It's hard to not be excited about creating dinner from the garden. The poor weather we've been having has had the side-effect of creating a bounty of fresh greens in the garden. I cleaned the batch you see pictured and realized that there was going to be more than...
A 3-D World is Enough For Me
I went to the movies for the first time in a while last week to see the last Harry Potter release. I'm one of those people who go so infrequently that I enjoy sitting through the previews as I don't get them anywhere else. We have no cable and no broadcast television,...
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