girl at large

I like to write about life when you have a job, some kids, a fixer upper and a fatal disease.

Category: Miss Ruby

  • i was walking Ruby out along the ramparts the other day in Antibes, though there was a nip in the air the sun was out, when i paused to let Miss Ruby do her sniffing thing. From behind me came a person on a bicycle–you can sense these things–always fond of bicyclists (next painting subject…

  • homemade German Chocolate Birthday Cake from Mom (and a lovely chocolate brown leather handbag, not pictured because it's lost somewhere under the mountain that is our coat tree)! a gooorgeous ring from Miss Maria! a Guide to French Cheeses book from Miss Liz! kisses from Miss Ruby! what more could a girl want?!

  • Miss Ruby is in creche (with Miss Jill) today…on my way to pick her up, wonder what kind of trouble she got into… i stayed out of trouble today–just a little digging around in pottery group. good stuff.

  • <img sweet potatoes…gone.

  • what am i thankful for this Thanksgiving weekend? one word: DRAMAMINE.

  • Mom misses me! i didn't see her at all this week, nary a phone call as she pointed out..in an effort to force myself to adjust to Cannes, to get out there and find things to love about it like i did in Antibes. and it was successful..i've been out and about much more this…

  • neglected to mention, that whilst pining for boy, am not entirely useless..have started work on large format series…continued studies today, preping canvases tomorrow–four to five pieces, each 4 ft. by 5ft, inspired by that gray-silver-green mossy business going on in Savannah. can you believe that? here i am, in one of the most overly-painted, classically…

  • mom called me tonight. i think she misses me. maybe almost as much as she does the dog.

  • Jack and Ruby made progress by napping on the same bed yesterday. they did the same last night, sleeping on my bed this time…a purring cat to my right, a sighing dog to my left. and me with no place to turn. hmm, is this truly progress?

  • Miss Jack the cat is winning the battle at Chez Dom et Dale…she thinks she is a person of course. and now Ruby thinks maybe she might be a cat…she keeps jumping up on counters and table tops cat-style. i nearly lost it laughing when she scrambled up and tried to walk on the edge…