Recovery Story #36, Queen Anne’s Lace on Old Cape Cod

Alice Garbarini Hurley
6 min readJun 23, 2021

Is this delicate doily a graceful flower or an invasive weed? I say the first — and seeing it every summer brings back memories of walks from Nauset Light Beach with my mother, when I was a teenager.

Behold the careful handiwork, the beautiful stitches in the wilflower caps. Image from iStock. Read about Queen Anne’s Lace at Gardening Know How.

Today I changed my sugar/overeating story series header to Recovery. It started as Addiction when I began using my words to describe my path on January 31, 2021. By Story #19

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Alice Garbarini Hurley

Magazine maven, craft coffee lover, legal guardian. Passionate about fashion and lipstick — though it may not look that way when I dash to the supermarket.