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Red
A weekend home sick is conducive to getting lots of reading an knitting done. The book I am reading while knitting this intensely red sweater is, appropriately enough, A Perfect Red. It is nonfiction that promises to engage like fiction. Sometimes this works, and sometimes it doesn’t, and the latter always leaves me wishing I’d…
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Hot Tea, Documentation, and Ben Gibbard, Not Necessarily in That Order
I am in the process of troubleshooting video embedding while nursing a vicious allergy attack and listening to the cheerfully devastated Postal Service.
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Velvet, not Violet
I was about to add a link to “Bend and Break” as an alert to my latest Depressing Music Kick, got as far as YouTube, and realized I’d already done that entry. I am nothing if not predictable. Not to worry–I have lots of depressing music! http://videoplayer.vevo.com/embed/Embedded?videoId=GB1411000169&playlist=false&autoplay=0&playerId=62FF0A5C-0D9E-4AC1-AF04-1D9E97EE3961&playerType=embedded&env=0&cultureName=en-US&cultureIsRTL=False
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Extra
In a perfect universe, the leap year day would be set aside to do something extraordinary. In the universe we have, bosses expect everyone to show up at work as if this was a Wednesday like every other. I therefore took pleasure in little things–a brisk wind, my cool-weather music, and a nice sturdy hat.…
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How to Knit a Hedgie Quick
Knit it for a baby shower! Nola the Hedgehog is number two in the trio of knitted toys I’m making on a deadline (Kiwi was the first). I have to say, I am a much more productive knitter when working on a deadline than when just working. This productivity sometimes compromises my sanity, like when…
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High of 81 F
Winter is slipping away. I am not in the camp that is jubilant about the return of spring: Phoenix winters are too mild and too short for me to feel that spring is any sort of reward. Remembering a coat & hat before you walk out the door for a scant two months is not…
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Silly
When birthdays or births of small children come up (usually without much notice), I am eternally grateful for two things: super wash yarn in my stash and quick patterns for stuffed toys. Behold the kiwi! Promptly named Silly by its six-year-old recipient, the kiwi was designed by Cheezombie. This is the first time I’ve knitted…
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à la Austen
One of the true things that Andrew Clements said in The School Story (which would have been good had it not been for the ending’s nosedive into warm-fuzzydom) is that all writers begin as readers. I most certainly started out as a reader, and a voracious one, before becoming a writer. Even afterwards, reading is…
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Valentine State
The Centennial is over, thank goodness. We can all sit down and take a deep breath. I viewed all the hullabaloo from behind a table, which was a rawther safe & comforting place to be for a person who is a little wary around crowds. Mousie liked Saturday better, because she got to sit on…
Anti-Quotidian 