I’ve been spending a bit of time catching up on snail mail these days. It’s been a relief and a pause, digging about in my stationery stash, affixing stamps. I mostly do it during homeschooling time. Much of Caleb’s homeschooling time I am doing the blog or on my screen in some way, and it’s … [Read more…]
One of the things that’s keeping me sane these days is enjoying the piles of books on my desk. I love reading them, but I also just love having them around. During this pandemic, some of us have had more time to read than usual, which is a great thing. I’m trying to make more … [Read more…]
We recently began carrying Leonardo Officina Italiana pens, and it’s been very exciting. I use the term “recently” quite loosely, as in between our first shipment (last year) and now time seems to have warped slightly. We were tremendously excited to get our last shipment in, which had some special orders that I know a … [Read more…]
“If you start to look around, you will start to see. When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope.” Anne Lamott’s book, Bird by Bird, is one of my favourite writing books of all time. They recently released a new edition … [Read more…]
Things continue to be sunny and hairy around here. We had a successful inventory day, and we counted a lot of things. We got a few shipments in that we were holding off on counting so as to not make inventory more complicated, and those are slowly sorting themselves out again. Our favourite distributors at … [Read more…]