Author: Laura Stone

Here is a wikipedia article on contra dancing... I'm excited that I might actually get to my first contradance in months tonight -- I'm experiencing contra-withdrawal, I think, typically indicated by feet that won't stop moving and a desire to put on a flowy skirt and do a gypsy. =)

I seem to like acronymns lately... So I'm preparing for the GRE and finding that my vocabulary isn't as large as I would like to to be... or as large as ETS would like it to be, perhaps is more accurate. Who ever uses words like "multifarious" and "stygian" and "meretricious" and "opprobriate"? I suppose… Continue reading GRE for me

What five things in my life do I take for granted? 1) Having full use of my hands -- I have always found hands fascinating and recently I've noticed how many things I wouldn't be able to do without them. Piano / organ / guitar, crocheting, typing, writing, back rubs,.... 2) Farm fresh food --… Continue reading Meme 2

Five reasons I blog: 1) Friends and family asked me to keep in touch, and I am notoriously bad at writing letters and returning phone calls and e-mails. 2) I don't often massage my ego in such a direct way -- but I find blogging to be, in some ways, refreshingly narcissistic. 3) I fancy… Continue reading Meme 1

I've lost from my mind some of the things I was going to say about this, but perhaps that simply means that what I've got left in my gray matter is what's really important to say. From where I'm sitting, it looks like my denomination is dying. I love the Church of the Brethren dearly,… Continue reading NYAC and CoB

I love the Catholic Church. I have spent the last year plus going regularly to mass and soaking up everything I could about the Church and its beliefs and practices. And, overall, I appreciate it very much and am in awe of most of what it teaches, professes, and lives. And I have learned that… Continue reading Clarification:

So here are the results of my glorious (though short) vacation: I went to NYC first off -- leaving at 4 am for an hour car ride and a two-hour train ride to Grand Central Station. I get the "city that never sleeps" thing -- I was surprised, small-town girl that I am, at how… Continue reading NYC and NYAC

Vacation!! I need a vacation. Oh -- did I say, I need a vacation? But, look -- here it is! I'm headed to New York tomorrow morning (at 4 am) to brave the city as a midwestern "suburban" girl - turned Berkshire boondocks girl... Thank goodness I lived in Chicago for a bit and am… Continue reading I need a…

I was looking at various others' blogs and came away from the experience with a mix of awe, guilt, and inspiration... So I'm going to include links to some of them on the sidebar now for you all to read -- Life in Avalon is the blog of the mother of the family in whose… Continue reading Inspiration… how long will it last?

Hump day / Dump day -- Wednesday... it's the day the farm takes its recycling and trash to the dump on "dump run". Say the word again if you didn't get it the first time. Nao (the guest who came up with that idea), we'll miss you terribly. Container -- the thing we are supposed… Continue reading Gould Farm Dictionary, part 2