Happy New Year, everyone. November didn't have a post a day, as I had hoped, but I managed a respectable 18 posts, more than any other month last year. Then December arrived, and I threw myself full-tilt into holiday celebrations and secret projects... But now I am back. My fellow bloggers are celebrating the best … Continue reading Goodbye 2016
Happy Thanksgiving to all my American readers. This is an odd holiday, isn't it? We get two full days off on a secular holiday, one that was instated as a national holiday by President Lincoln but was then rearranged by FDR to make more time for shopping. Then there's the Pilgrims. I definitely don't have … Continue reading Thank Goodness
You might want to move along, dear readers: there's not much to see here. Daylight Savings has hit me hard. After a couple of weeks of waiting for my bus in the dark, it felt very wrong to step outside to a rainy but post-sunrise morning. And now, as I sit with some hard-earned knitting, … Continue reading Daylight Savings
This has been a craptastic year for world events, hasn't it? Stateside we have this election year that has been doing a great job of bringing out the worst in people. Not as bad as other things that could be happening, but still, a bunch of politicians sniping relentlessly at one another is not making … Continue reading Instead of Cursing the Darkness
Hello, dear readers. This may look like a picture of ribbing, or the beginning of a ribbed beanie, but it is actually a picture of three weeks. Three weeks is a long time in blog land, but in real life it went by in a snap. In these three weeks, I had my first tenure … Continue reading Still Knitting
(Title courtesy of Mark Mulcahy: I know the version off this album) Happy New Year, one and all! My plan for the new year was to indulge myself in a day of rest, relaxation, and knitting. The unwashed laundry and uncleaned bathrooms and wedding planning together managed to exert such gravitational pull, however, that I … Continue reading Happy Birthday Yesterday
