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Musings on home, family, friends, and pets.

Home and Family
Halloween Decor 2021

I hate fall but I begrudgingly admit to enjoying decorating for Halloween. If you have a giant ivy pit…
October 11, 2021
Pets
More about Ollie

I feel the need to keep writing about Ollie to record and remember what an amazing dog he was.…
August 29, 2021
Gardening
Everyday I’m bumblin’

Our garden this year is not without its failings, but at least the bees had a place to congregate.…
August 26, 2021

I've been blogging for over 17 years and I'm apparently one of the few over-40 female bloggers who haven't sold out to THE MAN yet; hence this blog remains quirky, homespun and unprofitable. No big.

~~Wife. Dog lover. Slob.~~ I live in Southern New Jersey with my husband WM, and our dogs Ollie and Murphy. I work a fun (really!) office job in Philadelphia. So if you're looking for a childless, slightly round, marginally boring GenX woman's blog to follow, you've come to the right place! :)

Kimberly's bookshelf: read

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

Welp, that ended abruptly. The version I have includes additional short stories, which I thought were part of the book, so when this story ended, I thought the second half of the book would be the others' responses to ... the events that...

tagged: fiction, women, and own-ebook

We Should All Be Feminists

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

So very good. Beautifully written, and really hits home. It was refreshing to read about feminism in a viewpoint other than that of my white, middle-aged, ladyfriends. :) Every middleschooler should be issued a copy of it. It was supe...

tagged: nonfiction, borrowed-from-library, and women

Hidden Figures

by Margot Lee Shetterly

tagged: nonfiction, history, and women

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