Susan Crowe

Decisions, mistakes, and what’s in between

It has to be said – or maybe not – that I’ve made a lot of bad decisions in my life.
Here’s an incomplete list of bad decisions:

Took the advice of an aspiring make-up artist and ended up looking like a Geisha girl wearing a lipstick that was wrong. Very wrong.
Once, on a whim in Montreal, [...]

Deliveries

A great day for waiting by the door. Two deliveries, each long anticipated. Surprising me pleasantly was the delivery of a new travel coffee-maker, followed by the delivery of a quilt my cousin made for me.
The coffee maker will save me from bad coffee on the road, and the worst of the bad (my opinion [...]

New year, new snow

If I were in the country tonight, I’d walk in the woods. Snow has just stopped falling and, because there is a full moon behind the clouds, it’s more like late dusk than night.
But I’m not in the country tonight. I’m in the city and have just come in from shoveling. With my neighbours long [...]

A book found – a lost gem

“The Pillow Book” by Sei Shonagon – it was to this book I referred in my recent blog about lists.  What was lost is found. Thank-you, Jo Edgett, for wrangling this book back to me. Beautiful Jo.
On things lost and returned I can spend hours of thought. There’s one great loss to which I return more [...]

in the early morning blog

Three days this week, I have risen with the intention that I would get out, enjoy the weather, meet a friend, Christmas shop – anything to get me away from this house. All three days I have spent in the house, with only one foray to the local postal outlet. I blame this on agoraphobia [...]