Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Miscellaneous Musing

  • Rhythms

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about rhythms in our lives, cycles that repeat and intersect and sometimes even collide. There’s the rhythm of the year, the cycle of the seasons and of various seasonal celebrations. There’s the rhythm of the family, the cycle of birthdays and weddings anniversaries to be celebrated and commemorated. There’s…

  • 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.