About ~ Word Quilt

For years this blog was TechieFamily – a blog dedicated to showing how to enhance family living using technology. But one day I woke up and realized my kids were grown and had moved out. And the world was now using technology to enhance family connections on a regular basis. So the purpose of the site was no longer valid.
Writing is cathartic, and I love to share thoughts and life events so the site is now evolving into a journal-ish sort of thing.
I work for Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com) as a Happiness Engineer, and I’m married to an amazing artist. So this site will probably morph into work thoughts and art highlights. Plus stories about places we travel to 🙂
I’m a bit sad about letting go of TechieFamily, to be honest. But life moves on, and changes happen. Time for me to go with the flow.

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My Aunt Anne’s Wonderful Posts

Two Odd Things

We had crossed the highway on the way to the creek when John said, “Look! A rainbow!” The sun was shining brightly behind us, and there were no rain clouds in sight. We noted that the air was quite humid. I figured it was a Maundy Thursday miracle. God made something out of nothing, and […]

Taping Good Friday

Grandson David, John, and I were in church Tuesday to tape the choral parts of the Good Friday service. There were eight singers, an organist, the choir director, the pastor, an audio person, and the videographer. We were extremely careful to follow the state mandate of having no more than ten in a room together. […]

Our Table at the Creek

For the third week in a row, we took Sunday’s take-out dinner to Richland Creek and ate at the same picnic table. Our smiles were big, because we had Italian food from one of our favorite restaurants. Grandson David and I shared a meat-loaded calzone, and John had mushroom ravioli in white sauce topped with […]

Home Church, Week 3

We took our positions before the computer with David at the controls. I think we’re beginning to get the hang of this. Singing parts is fun for us, so we had a hymnal for the music. David was either more prepared than we were, or he still had a foot under the breakfast table. His […]

Talk is not Cheap

Talk is not cheap these days. It’s very precious, especially when you can be with neighbors outside, six feet apart. Neighbor Joyce was the one who thought of porch sitting. I failed to get her photo the first time, but this week I did. Sharing the sun is easy, since everyone seems to love the […]

Last Mailbox Warming

The temperature was only three degrees warmer than the previous day, but the windbreaker and hat I wore both days were too much. I left them to warm Connie’s and Marla’s mailbox as we walked on to the creek. With warmer weather coming, this was probably the last time I would use their mailbox as […]

Rejuvenated at the Supermarket

The whole world is concentrating on COVID-19, since it has affected everyone in some way. Because it was raining at the time we usually take our 2.5-mile walk, we did our grocery shopping at the tail end of senior-time. Since our state now has rules about staying apart, our store set aside two days for […]

A New Pew

We found a new place to worship at our church. A week ago we watched a video of the service in the dining area using a laptop. This time we saw the service streamed at the usual hour, and we were using a desktop. We could hear it without straining, and even better, we could […]

COVID-19 Days

The first displacement of the virus brought grandson Nathaniel to us for a week after his university closed down. He recovered from his head cold, lowered the mirror the night before he left, and he and John got up at 3 am to get to the airport in Charlotte. His dad picked him up at […]

Home Church and Dinner by the Creek

We assembled our home church to worship Sunday morning, since our services were canceled because of the corona virus. John printed the worship outline from the church web site and stapled the pages for each of us. He had two hymnals, bought when we lived in New York, for us to share. I set up […]