Diva Living in a Small Town

  • One Good Thing

    One Good Thing

    To many, today is Mardi Gras – the riotous end of the Carnivale season, presaging the solemnity of Lent. To some, it’s Shrove Tuesday, which is unofficially “Pancake Day.” I grew up with church pancake suppers on Shrove Tuesday, which at that time, were less about using up the sugar and butter in a house…

  • One Good Thing

    One Good Thing

    My Beloved is an avid tabletop gamer. He’s been doing this since he was aAny  boy and he’s got a core group of friends (dating back to junior high!) that come to our house once a month to play for a few hours. Those friendships are so important to all of them and it’s great…

  • One Good Thing

    One Good Thing

    For Day 6 of the Everyday Elegance Experiment, I noticed some things in my own backyard. My mother had a camellia bush growing outside the kitchen window and when I noticed that this house had a beautiful, well-established camellia in the backyard, I took it as a positive sign that this would be a Very…

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