• Bookshops

    Bookshop Visit//Tatnuck Bookseller Gift Gallery & Café

    I stumbled upon a bookstore last week. My husband had a doctor’s appointment in Westborough, MA to follow up on his concussion recovery and I went with him. We were a little early and decided to get something to eat. Imagine my joy when I realized there was a bookshop and café literally across the street from the doctor’s office. My husband had no choice about where we were going at that point. When I first walked in I did not think this was going to be a wildly successful bookshop visit. The store is huge but a large portion of it is taken up by gift items. Notice “Gift…

  • poem for a thursday

    A Poem for a Thursday #26

    Is there anyone who doesn’t know Winnie-the-Pooh, that lovable, loyal, bear of very little brain? I don’t remember when I first encountered him. Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga, and Roo; they were all familiar characters. I half-believed that somewhere there really was a hundred-acre wood where the animals lived and frolicked and one day maybe I could join them. At some point during my childhood, my dad (I think it was him) brought home copies of When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. Some of the poems felt a little sweet to me, even as a child,  but some had a rhythm and a flow that…

  • golden moments

    Golden Moments #10

    I bought this sweatshirt a few weeks ago and it is making me very happy. My son asked if I had it made specifically for myself because it is so on brand. I didn’t, but yes, this is me in a nutshell. It is actually quite pink but that isn’t showing up too well in the photo. I have no idea why I bought pink, I would usually buy grey or blue, but pink it is and I am fine with that. I stopped in at a library that usually has a big selection of books that have been donated to the book sale but they think they can’t sell…