I am a homemaker and writer, currently working on a historical mystery set in fourteenth-century England. This blog began with a focus on homemaking, sewing, and sustainability. In 2020 I’m shifting my focus to share what I am learning as a novelist.
Despite doing lots of creative writing as a teenager and in college, I gave it up for some years to go to graduate school, where I got an MPhil and a PhD in English focusing on the medieval period. I returned to creative writing after the birth of my daughter, and discovered that while I knew a lot about the Middle Ages and about academic writing, I still didn’t know how to write a novel. So now I am learning!
I live in Texas with my husband and our daughter.
Why ‘Sorting Buttons’?
When I was growing up, we had a button jar we would tip out onto the floor. We would then scrape through the buttons, grouping them, finding a matching set or a single oddity. The huge mess of buttons, once examined, yielded surprising finds and patterns.
I think of blogging in much the same way: putting together small things to see the larger patterns that emerge.
Love reading your posts!
Hi – only writing as, was curious where you located the brown dropper bottle in your essential oils post. I see that it has a graduated dropper .. and was wondering is that a glass dropper or plastic? and if glass would like to know where you found them!
thank you for any help you could provide -frank
I got those bottles from Neal’s Yard. The droppers on them are glass. But I know you can also get similar ones online; I have ordered some other types of glass bottles from a website called http://www.naturallythinking.com.
I have just discovered your blog! How to I subscribe to updates by email?
I’m so glad you found my blog! I’m actually not sure how to subscribe by email, since it’s not a function I’ve ever used before myself, but I’ve asked my ‘administrator’ (i.e. my husband!) to investigate how to do this and I will let you know!
Hi Elizabeth, I’ve just added a widget to the sidebar where you can subscribe to the blog by email. It’s on the right-hand side at the bottom. Hopefully that should give you what you need!