Site Owner: ljhliesl
Site Name: Speaking Confidentially
Site URL: www.penguindust.com/ljh/
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people i know, faces i don’t Posted on Dec 22, 2020, 11:12 am
In which other people exist in real life, not only in the cloud.


lighting my tree Posted on Dec 21, 2020, 11:12 am
Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow.


the other side of this Posted on Dec 20, 2020, 1:12 pm
A list that I have not checked twice.


spring cleaning Posted on Dec 19, 2020, 2:12 pm
Just make-work not to skip a day. Skip it.


flurries Posted on Dec 18, 2020, 12:12 pm
A slow early winter day.


scrawling, listening, ambling Posted on Dec 16, 2020, 4:12 pm
Minimal cards with minimal effort. Done.


i, karen Posted on Dec 15, 2020, 4:12 pm
About a book I'm reading.


nobody's fool Posted on Dec 14, 2020, 11:12 am
A favorite novel.


gianduja wafers Posted on Dec 13, 2020, 2:12 pm
Cookies, failing at.


what to read next Posted on Dec 12, 2020, 12:12 pm
I miss browsing at the library.


suttree Posted on Dec 11, 2020, 4:12 pm
A pairing: Yaz and Cormac McCarthy


hiding Posted on Dec 10, 2020, 12:12 pm
Hidey-holes of childhood


but did he Posted on Dec 9, 2020, 10:12 am
My father.


day that will live in infamy Posted on Dec 7, 2020, 11:12 am
Another day as Miss Havisham.


oops Posted on Dec 6, 2020, 12:12 pm
Less legible and more pointless: this year's card.


Hocus Focus Posted on Dec 4, 2020, 1:12 pm
On wasting time.


flattening one curve, expanding another Posted on Dec 3, 2020, 1:12 pm
Quarantine and circumference


how it started, how it's going Posted on Dec 2, 2020, 11:12 am
I miss my sister.


must be tuesday Posted on Dec 2, 2020, 11:12 am
The usual introductory thing for Holidailies.


Friends as Stocking Stuffers Posted on Dec 22, 2019, 12:12 pm
Friends shouldn't move far away or even near away.


this year's tree Posted on Dec 15, 2019, 12:12 pm
My tree is still the best tree.


running out of rabbits Posted on Dec 14, 2019, 4:12 pm
The naming convention continues.


challenges 2020 Posted on Dec 13, 2019, 10:12 am
I recently said I wasn't going to alter my reading for 2020 challenges. And I maybe I won't. Here is the plan.


soon Posted on Dec 11, 2019, 10:12 am
What luxury that my to-do list includes baking and writing.


four years of Amani Posted on Dec 9, 2019, 12:12 pm
Still not a dog but the bird has some good points.


mirror Posted on Dec 8, 2019, 11:12 am
I looked up the provenance of an heirloom.


thimk Posted on Dec 8, 2019, 10:12 am
What I need to bear in mind.


this is new Posted on Dec 5, 2019, 3:12 pm
I'm doing exercise that I don't enjoy. I don't understand.


the Stockingness of presents Posted on Dec 4, 2019, 7:12 pm
The last of the party posts for a while.


actual presents for an octogenarian Posted on Dec 3, 2019, 9:12 pm
What do you give to someone who has everything but time?


Turning 80 Posted on Dec 2, 2019, 11:12 am
My mother's turning 80. I'm trying to do a thing.


holidailies begin Posted on Dec 2, 2019, 9:12 am
The usual saying hi. The first proper entry is http://www.penguindust.com/ljh/2019/12/01/turning-80/. Holidailies wheeee!


i ask you Posted on Dec 30, 2018, 5:12 pm
In which all books continue to Be One Book in the most egregious instance yet.


Cindi's stocking this year Posted on Dec 23, 2018, 11:12 am
In which I assemble excesses of consumption for my sister to snark upon.


year in exercise Posted on Dec 18, 2018, 11:12 pm
Skip this one.


weekend Posted on Dec 17, 2018, 6:12 pm
Reading to kids and meeting a horse: a good weekend.


Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge fore 2019 Posted on Dec 13, 2018, 6:12 pm
The best laid plans gang aft agley.


firefly etc Posted on Dec 11, 2018, 11:12 pm
A few things in the course of a day. Cookies, books, Firefly.


cookies Posted on Dec 10, 2018, 8:12 pm
In which I bake both standards and new recipes.


here's one thing Posted on Dec 9, 2018, 9:12 pm
To my own surprise, I compare Amani favorably to Blake in one aspect of their personalities.


botching a tree skirt Posted on Dec 8, 2018, 3:12 pm
A hamfisted waste of a lovely fabric.


all books are one book: again Posted on Dec 8, 2018, 1:12 pm
The ongoing phenomenon of unexpected commonalities among disparate books, between Kaiser Bill and Laura Ingalls Wilder in three degrees.


botching this year's stockings Posted on Dec 6, 2018, 6:12 pm
Stockings for the year's newlings.


Within measurable distance of its end Posted on Dec 5, 2018, 12:12 pm
My immediate TBR pile is manageable!


oops Posted on Dec 5, 2018, 11:12 am
A quick one because I didn't post yesterday. Death, books, the bird. The usual.


amani and dental floss Posted on Dec 3, 2018, 11:12 am
Toys for the bird.


statement Posted on Dec 2, 2018, 1:12 pm
A statement piece for my unimaginative wardrobe.


interim week Posted on Dec 1, 2018, 12:12 pm
... on the pause between Thanksgiving and December.


seven fishes Posted on Dec 25, 2017, 4:12 pm
Christmas Eve dinner.


Cindi's stocking, 2017 Posted on Dec 24, 2017, 12:12 pm
I miss my sister.


reader harder 2018 Posted on Dec 23, 2017, 11:12 am
Book Riot's challenges for the coming year do not intrigue me as much as those for previous years.


wolves, somehow Posted on Dec 18, 2017, 11:12 am
Another conversation about books, but I don't have the DeLillo quote about the family dinner as the font of misinformation.


a day in the neighborhood Posted on Dec 16, 2017, 12:12 pm
My community ties in the neighborhood.


flinch Posted on Dec 14, 2017, 11:12 am
"And so stand stricken, so remembering him."


biking on islands Posted on Dec 11, 2017, 10:12 pm
In which Croatia is pretty.


banbury Posted on Dec 10, 2017, 1:12 pm
Another bike, another name.


amani's anniversary Posted on Dec 9, 2017, 11:12 am
The second anniversary of bringing this crazy thing home.


squeaking into his back Posted on Dec 9, 2017, 11:12 am
The parrot is sometimes cute. Always bad, plus sometimes cute.


joining this decade Posted on Dec 7, 2017, 8:12 pm
I join today's version of AV club.


there goes that Posted on Dec 5, 2017, 12:12 pm
On failing at daily in December, and admitting something about my father.


Thanksgiving Houseguest Posted on Dec 3, 2017, 11:12 am
Our temporary dog.


Not Just Drivers Posted on Dec 2, 2017, 11:12 am
The conceit behind the wheel.


Yearly Check-in Posted on Dec 1, 2017, 11:12 am
The annual intro to moi.


that was fun Posted on Dec 9, 2016, 5:12 pm
Giving blood and receiving giggles.


more botchery Posted on Dec 7, 2016, 9:12 pm
Spending a cold day with a sewing machine and a parrot.


that's one day Posted on Dec 6, 2016, 12:12 pm
A day to feel okay.


on the edge Posted on Dec 4, 2016, 2:12 pm
the minimum


almost a year Posted on Dec 3, 2016, 11:12 am
A different parrot's personality


the bright spot Posted on Dec 1, 2016, 11:12 am
One thing about 2016 that doesn't suck.


learning about amani Posted on Dec 20, 2015, 1:12 pm
In which the flock learn about redbo Amani.


Amani tucks Posted on Dec 11, 2015, 8:12 pm
Mostly I admire our new little one, but I do manage to go outside and to read.


Amani's second day Posted on Dec 10, 2015, 10:12 pm
Life gets back to normal. Amani learns us and our routine. I read.


this season's stockings Posted on Dec 9, 2015, 10:12 am
I make stockings for the newlings of my acquaintance. I'm not much of a seamstress and my patience is best measured with a Geiger counter so results vary.


I missed a day Posted on Dec 8, 2015, 12:12 pm
I make Yule stockings. Or not.


decorating, docenting Posted on Dec 6, 2015, 8:12 pm
A gingerbread house, an afternoon at the library.


Minibreak in snow, with raptors Posted on Dec 6, 2015, 12:12 am
In which I don't ski.


from where I sit Posted on Dec 4, 2015, 11:12 am
Domesticity: I enjoy our house and sewing but I'm not good at either.


dream shoe Posted on Dec 3, 2015, 10:12 am
I thought I lacked the shoe gene but it was just latent.


rambling, settling in Posted on Dec 2, 2015, 10:12 am
We're adopting a new parrot. Soon.


holidaily the first Posted on Dec 1, 2015, 12:12 am
Thanksgiving. A wedding. Friends' children.


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