Halloween-ish!

I’m a huge fan of Halloween. It’s because I have so many good memories of the holiday while growing up in Michigan. It’s enmeshed in my brain with other delightful fall experiences like walking in crunchy leaves, visiting cider-mills, and taking hay rides through pumpkin patches. Students are always excited about Halloween, but it can…

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Brushing Up

So I have painting on the brain—interior house painting, to be exact. My husband and I are in the process of moving to the house he grew up in, and it needs some cosmetic improvements. His mom, who was a wonderful lady we all miss, had a thing for flowered wallpaper. We had the wallpaper…

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