Author Archives: Fran Gardner

#100happydays I walked 10 blocks yesterday! Slow with walker, but more than I had done for a while. That makes me very happy.

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Fran Gardner
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#100happydays I make me happy. Reposting after original post disappeared. Sorry for redundancy.

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Fran Gardner
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#100happydaysWhole-grain muffins with nuts and fruit. See Pumpkin Muffins at Www.frangardner.com. These are made with yams.

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Fran Gardner
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#100happydays Beautiful fabric, starched and ironed and ready to create.

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Fran Gardner
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#100happydays Getting a brazil nut out of its shell in one piece

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Fran Gardner
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Library serendipity

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Fran Gardner

The more information we have available, the narrower our focus. We can’t read all the news that’s out there, so we focus on just the topics that interest us. The daily newspaper used to be a feast of serendipity. There … Continue reading →

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My first quilt!

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Fran Gardner

Thanks to sister Catherine, who lives in Cork, Ireland, for encouraging me to take up quilting. This is my first effort, a completed top from an idea in Cheerful Charm Squares, published by Martingale.*   Here’s the original version, which looks cleaner, … Continue reading →

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Breakfast, glorious breakfast

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Fran Gardner

In a recent edition of O magazine, Mehmet Oz, the ubiquitous diet guru, suggested eating the same thing for breakfast each morning as a way to help lose weight. His go-to breakfast: yogurt and blueberries. Sounds good, but way boring. … Continue reading →

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Three generations

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Fran Gardner

PBS has picked up a photo Lyza Danger Gardner took in about 2004 showing me, my mother, Pearl Pollak, and my daughter Maggie with our MacBooks. Mom had recently turned 90, and her children chipped in to buy her that laptop.

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Happy Guy Fawkes Day

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Fran Gardner

Rocky the Squirrel: “Do you know what day it is?” Bullwinkle: “Guy Fawkes Day?” Bullwinkle gave the wrong answer, and I can’t remember what the right answer. I do remember that back in 1962, I thought the exchange on “The … Continue reading →

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