craft Archives - Charlotte Rains Dixon

Lessons From The Snow

Its been snowing in Portland since Saturday and now we have about a foot on the ground. I know that most of you consider Oregon a northern state and you thus assume that we always get a lot of snow, but such is not the case. Its been five years since we've gotten an appreciable […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Free Book Offering: Going To A Place Far, Far Away

Well, its not that far, really. I'm heading up to the Washington coast to visit my Nashville friend Sue at her father's place. What makes it feel far, far away is that there is no internet service and no cell phone service. No blogging! No Twitter! No text messaging! However, I'm only going to be […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Sharpening Pencils

This morning I was working on my daily 15 minutes devoted to the realization that I have no logic skills whatsoever, otherwise known as solving a Sudoku puzzle, when it occurred to me that my pencils needed sharpening. Now I'm bad enough at Sudoku without having also to contend with blurry-pointed pencils. The boxes in […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015