Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Miscellaneous Musing

  • Old Girls

    Well, it happened again. Against all expectation – and every resolution – I brought home another old sewing machine. There’s just something about these old girls that I can’t resist. I had seen this one before, but thought she was too expensive – I don’t, after all, really need another old sewing machine. The vendor’s…

  • Flotsam & Jetsam

    I’m having one of those months, apparently, and it’s my own fault. I’m someone who isn’t crazy about doing the admin stuff. There’s always a pile of stuff on the floor beside my desk that needs to be filed. (Ugh. Filing.) There’s always another pile beside it of things that need doing – guest blog…

  • Appreciate A Dragon Day

    Honest and true – someone told me last summer that this was an official “day”. It was Maggie Robinson, dropping by to comment on a guest blog post. The day I stopped by her blog, she had a pre-Raphaelite image in her post – I’m inclined to believe anything said with authority by anyone who…

  • Happy New Year!

    A big welcome to 2009. Here’s hoping you greeted the year with good health and good company, and that the year ahead holds only good things for you and yours.

  • Snow!

    And the flakes just keep on coming. We got snow on Friday and snow on Sunday. There’s more snow falling, and more snow forecast. It will definitely be a white Christmas in this neck of the woods. Last winter, I mentioned to Mr. C. that my friend had joined a gym after the holidays. I…