Ellie@Home by Nicole Kapise-Perkins

In an effort to escape from, oh, everything, (without a bottle of Reisling) I decided to treat myself to spending an hour (or, preferably, half a lifetime) with blogger/author/cooker/baker extraordinaire Luisa Weiss. Reading her blog always inspires and entertains me (Luisa is what I want to be when I finally manage to grow up...ignoring the fact that I'm older than she is...) and though our realities are far different, I can always identify with what she has to say. At this current point in my reality, I can absolutely relate to this current post, as all of my writing projects have been abandoned by the wayside as I work on sorting out, well, work. My friends, my friend Luisa: (No, the sweet piggy is not Luisa.....) June 07, 2015 Writing. Something. Anything. Dear readers, much like this little bronze pig on a bridge in Wismar, I have fallen and I can't get up. Though something tells me this pig would characterize his prone position as something far more pleasur

  I have a day off today. A brilliant, beautiful, probably uninteresting, definitely uncomplicated day off. I have a day off tomorrow as well. Completely empty, full of promise, loaded with things I could do, might even do, probably won't do. How perfectly wonderful.   I have been so busy lately: working scheduled hours, picking up extra days when coworkers need a day off (I love those girls, and am always happy to lend a hand, but I think I need to work on saying no...hence my two days off in a row !!), writing blog posts (not here, sorry, but check out SageWoman), polishing finished manuscripts, beginning new ones (visiting the Arctic with a walrus named Wallace), and finally, struggling with a decision that will most definitely affect the girls I work with, as well as my family. (That has finally been resolved, thank the gods. A decision that takes three weeks to reach has most definitely been carefully thought over.)   So what will I do with my two wonderful days off? All th