ANNA'S CURIO CABINET

I broke my collarbone in spring of 2018 which meant I was stuck inside with my right arm in a sling and forbidden to bike/run/horse...

Spring has come and gone and we're at the start of a drier than normal summer. It's been cooler so far too, although with El Niño...

Have you ever had the experience where you learned a term for something you didn't know existed and yet knew the thing itself existed?...

Being mid-January now, it seems too late to write about resolutions for 2023 and reflections for 2022 but allow me this: I came across a...

It's dark now by 5 pm. Stupid and dark. Soon to be stupid and cold and dark. And while I will wallow in my seasonal-affectiveness-disorde...

I am in full autumn fan girl mode right now. Pumpkins: bought. Pie: made and eaten. Constantly thinking about new cozy hobbies for dark,...

Here we are at the turn of a season. I like the coolness in the air and the goldenrod but am reluctant to let go of summer, with its...

The stupor of deep summer is upon me. It's the "try-to-get-all-outside-stuff-done-between-the-hours-of-5:30-am-and-7:30-am" type of...

I'm in full summer mode here at the Curio Cabinet. This means a lot of exploring outdoors and very little writing or artsy-fartsy. But...

Two weekends ago my husband and I went on a short, local backpacking trip along the Appalachian Trail in Maryland. The first day we had...

Last week I finished reading Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton....

I have a love/hate relationship with March. All its ups and downs with temperature give me trust issues with Mother Nature and this past...

I did it! The other week I finished my first zine in over a year! "Historic Houses" is a collage of an old map of National Trust...

I paint my bee hives in the winter. It gives me something to do in nasty weather and I feel I'm in the most need for color on these...

There's something to be said about the mundane. I tend to measure the worth of a writer by how well she can make the mundane seem...

Right after Thanksgiving there were a few days that started off very cold around here. During one such morning, I saw, to my surprise, a...

My family and I share books. We trade, recommend, gush, argue, critique. There are a handful of books that my mom, dad, and I have read...

My husband gifted me a new word a few weeks ago, one I'd never heard of or recall seeing in print and now my laptop is reacting as...

I used to dislike fall because it meant I was back in school, the greenery was dying, and soon the dark slog through winter would begin....