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Makin’ It
It’s been a busy week of making Christmas gifts. As I was clicking the mouse to arrange the same pictures differently for calendars over and over, or wrapping wire…
family | music | parenting | photography
Plugging Away
I have been, even if my week’s practice all takes place in two evenings or one marathon session of once popular tunes. (365 Day 305) Right now the challenge is…
books | knitting | linkage | music | photography | thinking out loud
My Winter Catalog Moment
I’m pretty grounded, but once in a while I get wistful like a child and draw up a long, impossible Christmas list in my head because it’s winter and that’s…
cheap stuff | knitting | music
I Got it at Ross Because it Was There.
This is why I love Ross: (365, Day 296) 18 balls of Ella Rae Extrafine Heathers wool- at Ross!? I was looking at footstools and there they were, glowing in a…
If it Doesn’t Kill You, It Makes You the Hulk
The bear said, Isabel, glad to meet you, How do, Isabel, now I’ll eat you!Isabel, Isabel, didn’t worry,Isabel didn’t scream or scurry.She washed her hands and she straightened…
Here it Comes
We had an unexpected storm that day. (365 Day 250) “My feet are planted in the waist-high reedsIn the shadows in the shape of treesThrough the kingdom’s smoky leavesYou’d be…
Time to Stretch
It’s that time. I guess things are just too quiet or, dare I say, comfortable. I’ve made peace with self portraits, fit in a new study habit, stagnated in martial…
New Linkage
Bringing back all those crusty junior high band uniform memories.