A Place Like This

Valarie Budayr

  • Bright Starred Away……..

    The light is subdued and golden. The air has a chill but warmth at the same time. I was ready to be taken back into a time. To live as another did for just a little while. Not knowing that… Continue reading

  • Up All Knight

    Thursday, Halloween Eve Eve…or two days before Halloween, (Mimi enters room) "Mom do we have any refrigerator boxes? …….Mom, do we have any dowel?………Mom,do we have any glue sticks for the hot glue gun?……..Mom ………" (Little boy "O" enters room)… Continue reading

  • A woman ahead of her time…….

      That woman would be me. It seems I started the self-love treat giving a week before everyone else in the Joy Diet.The idea this week is to treat yourself twice a day whether you completed anything or not to inspire… Continue reading

  • A Bird of Thanks

    Today I am so thankful. A few days ago in the post arrived this box, addressed to me. Though I had expected it, it was a surprise none the less. This was an anticipated parcel from Erin of Apples for… Continue reading

  • Hit The Road Vintage

    Well we're going back. To Nashville that is. Mimi wanted to walk the campus of Vanderbilt one more time. Early decision applications are due at the end of this week. Both of us look forward to those mother/daughter moments when… Continue reading

  • Living the Rumpus….

    I had my own rumpus experience when I was small. Sitting on my sister's lap, being introduced to my favorite monsters all those years ago. There was never any fear of them. Those monsters were friends. Night after night I… Continue reading

  • Pumpkin Bells

    Sunday was one of those glorious fall days, where the sun is giving off that shiny glow and the world feels perfect. The night before I was going through an old stack of music and discovered a halloween card given… Continue reading

  • The Magic of doing so I can eat chocolate……..

    I would just like to say that Martha uses really big scary words like fear, scary, and risk in her chapter called "Risk". It's Friday and time for The Joy Diet. It is so hard to move forward with words like these. Which… Continue reading

  • To Imagineer

    8 pm is way too early for a curfew. There are designs to be drawn, prototypes to construct, trials to be run. There is much dreaming and scheming that needs to be accomplished to move these new projects forward. (… Continue reading

  • Under the Hatch

    What if you turn right instead of left ? I have walked in Nashville so many times that I have acquired walking patterns. This time however, I was giving a first time tour to Mimi and Omi, and so I walked… Continue reading