A Place Like This

Author: Valarie Budayr

  • This Moment

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    {this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.  

  • A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed

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      When I picked Katten up Friday night to give him a little hug before bed, he cried out in pain. I couldn't see anything wrong. No broken bones, no abscess, no wounds. So I laid him in his bed in the basement and would see how things were in the morning. The Morning: Poor…

  • Favorite Hat Conversion

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     Ta-Dah! Here it is…..my new sacky hat. When I was visiting Emily I bought some Noro yarn, surprise surprise. I just love Noro yarn and as much as I try to stop knitting with it I can't. Can you believe I went all the way to England to buy Noro yarn from Japan? I had…

  • A Little Birthday Madness

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    The instructions for his 12th birthday party were clear. All guys, only girls he's related to i.e. mom and sisters, chocolate cake with chocolate frosting (homemade of course), mini hamburgers, homemade steak fries and all the bonding that 5 12 year old boys could muster in a sleepover. Somewhere in all of this I became…

  • To The Tower

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    Happy Valentine's Day from the city of love, Paris. "And the cathedral was not only company for him, it was the universe; nay, more, it was nature itself. He never dreamed that there were other hedgerows than the stained glass windows in perpetual bloom. Other shade than that of the stone foilage always budding, loaded…

  • Elements of Early Childhood

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        Hi Everyone, Just wanted to let you know that the Waldorf Connection is having a new course which starts tomorrow called,"The Elements of Early Childhood." I'm so excited about this course and the support it can bring to those of us with small children in our homes. The “Elements of Early Childhood” 5-week…

  • Our Lady

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    I'm just taking a short walk down the St. Miche and then over to one of the most famous sites of Paris. As I promised yesterday, today we're following in the steps of Victor Hugo, famed writer of the "Hunchback of Notre Dame".  Have you guessed where I'm going yet? Yep ….you're right. Notre Dame de…

  • Temple of Storytellers and Thinkers

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      Have you ever passed something a thousand times and never even thought of entering to see what's inside? The Pantheon is such a building for me. The art of passing such an edifice was an integral part of my Paris routine.  It was only during this visit as I was walking to the market that…

  • Paris:: The Best Things in Life Never Change

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    As the metro stop "Luxembourg" approached, I felt this little momentary need to scream. As in exhilarating moment of excited inner bliss sort of screaming.  Here I was in Paris, almost ready to get off in the "neighborhood", almost ready to get off and say hello to a glimmer of my life that I had loved so…

  • A Last Look at Wales

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    After the coldness of the last couple days, this morning felt down right balmy. You know what that means,……it's time to walk the dog.   I would have taken any occasion to walk through this lovely countryside. For a bit I was worried that I wouldn't even get to see Wales because of the fog,…