All Caron – A Giveaway

Posse!  It’s an All Caron Giveaway Day!  Here’s what happened.  I’d planned to tell you all about the lovely day I spent in Chicago last week but when I woke up this morning it was a Craptastic day, with gale-force… Continue Reading

Past Elegance

Posse, this story begins with a long-ago trip to NYC (I cannot now remember why I was there – but I was always there, so (shrug).  I lucked into a suite at The Ritz on Central Park, it was a… Continue Reading

Winter Blues

Posse!  Like pretty much everyone else in the Northern Hemisphere I am suffering from the Winter Blues.  Trying (and not doing too badly) to practice Gratitude – the weekend brought a fresh hit of snow, which I always find demoralizing … Continue Reading

A Walk

My darlings!  I’d planned to write a long, thoughtful post on Arpege – and I will – just not this week.   It’s been an… odd.. week, fraught with anxiety, which is bizarre because NOTHING ‘bad’ happened.  I think it just… Continue Reading

The Last of the Musings (2025)

Posse!  Happy nascent New Year! Wishing you every happiness, in comfort and contentment, in the year ahead.  Lordt knows we could use it!   Do you remember Ray Bradbury’s short story “All Summer in a Day”?  Well today we’ve had… Continue Reading

Busted!!

Yikes!   Sitting here, wrapped in fleece, stoned right the heck out of my mind… Post-surgery, don’tchaknow. I nearly forgot to post! And.  I. Am. Stoned!  so whooo knows what you’re reading.. Off of Tramadol (which Autotrash insists on rewriting… Continue Reading

A Tale of Two Things

Darling Posse!  As I write this snow is stomping across the Central IL Valley region, dropping 5-8″ (hopefully that is the most we’ll get).  Well, at least we’re not getting snow/sleet/rain like they are about 40 minutes south.  That sounds… Continue Reading