Originally posted on msomervillesite:
It is only in the later years of our marriage that my husband has left home to go hunting. While some of my in-laws have been ‘hunting widows” for years, I have not. The first year Roger did this, I did not accompany him. But then I thought, I could go…
Author Archives: msomerville2014
My September Reading
Here is my latest installment on the What’s on Your Book Shelf Reading Challenge. What is on yours? Do you have a favorite genre? author? Do you prefer to read old favorites or best sellers?
Of Coffee Shares, Link Parties, Writing Challenges, and other Lovely Things
Do you blog? Is the experience of blogging different from what you expected when you began? Tell me how.
Piece Meal Stories of Jack and Maggie, Part I
Do you love to cook? How old were you or at what stage in your life did you learn? Do you have favorite memories of meals from your youth?
My August Reading
#whatsonyourbookshelfchallenge The Reading Challenge I love to read and love writing, as a blogger that goes without saying. But much of my reading is taken up by professional reading needs and so recreational reading is something that generally happens only on vacation. While I had come up with a plan for improving my reading capacity,Continue reading “My August Reading”
My Summer into Fall Reading Plan
I was going to title this My Summer Reading Plan, Progress Note, (https://michelesomerville.blog/2021/06/14/my-summer-reading-plan but I feel the quickly draining away of summer, with all of the school supplies on sale, the summer clothes on sale that seem to be heralding the close, or clothes of one season morphing into another. I never did buy enoughContinue reading “My Summer into Fall Reading Plan”
Sheba the Homebody
Sheba is our fourth rescue dog. Life with her is never boring. Do you have a special pet? Isn’t it amazing how quickly they become family?
#Stronger Than the Cookie: The first weeks of maintaining my weight loss
I spent the first months of the COVID lock-down in Pennsylvania, doing what I have done for much of my life, downing my favorite comfort foods of cake (with frosting), cookies and ice-cream, until a fateful day in June 2020 when I had a wake-up call. You can read that story here: https://michelesomerville.blog/2020/07/21/the-cookie-diary I metContinue reading “#Stronger Than the Cookie: The first weeks of maintaining my weight loss”
Patient Prayers and Other Words
I began journaling my prayers, essentially writing letters to God, in a composition book in 1998. It has been a freeing spiritual practice for me. This post contains prayers that were written for the post, they are not “ripped from the pages of my prayer journal” but are very much my thoughts, reflections and prayersContinue reading “Patient Prayers and Other Words”
My Summer Reading Plan
Reading IS fundamental and we have to make time to do it! That said, it is something I struggle with, what about you?
msomervillesite 