Welcome to My 2nd Life

I lived my entire life – 72 years of it – wishing to do one thing but feeling obliged to do another.

All my life I have been in love with fabrics. My mother and older sisters sewed. My mother would sit at her sewing machine for hours, making clothing for herself and her six girls. Or making drapes and slipcovers for the family home. I remember going fabric shopping with her and my older sisters as we selected material for some special project or the other. I can recall the sights and feeling of going through the rows of bolts, each one holding another treasure to be explored, touched, unfolded, and inspected. How would it work, how would it look? …