Keepin’ On Keepin’ On

Lots of work going on here. At the end of last week, I had a bit of extra time which was divine. I did a little organizing and planning while taking frequent knitting breaks. Everything changed, today. The final installment of a big editorial project arrived. In some ways I’m …

Happiness Is . . .

After a crazy busy work week, with more crazy business slated for tomorrow, today was a little piece of awesome. My favorite Saturday of the month—fiber guild! I can honestly say that one of the very best parts of trading Chicago for the mountains of NE Tennessee has been finding …

Art by Chiara Bautista

I can’t begin to say how much I love this. The artist is Chiara Bautista. I’ve tried to find a way to contact her to ask for permission to post her artwork here, but I haven’t been able to locate an email address, mailing address, or anything else. There’s a …

Manna

How does this happen? I mean, thank goodness it happens eventually rather than not happening at all, but how can it be that there is some amazing thing or person or idea in the world that everyone has known about and loved and been amazed by since forever but of …

Catching Up

So my dad is back home with a brand new bionic knee. The guy who came to set up the machine that will bend it back and forth for him, for eight hours a day for three weeks, said they deliver about 20 to 25 of the machines a day …

Weekend Knitting

Diner knitting (that’s Urban Cowboy on the TV in the background): Car knitting: Stump knitting: Hospital knitting coming up . . .  My sweet dad is having knee replacement surgery tomorrow. Be well, my knitters.

Plans

My husband always says that you plan plans—you don’t plan results. Today, as on many other days, he was proven right.  My schedule involved a set of papers that needed to be graded, an editorial project that needed work, and a couple of errands, in addition to all the regular …

Keep on bloggin’ in the free world . . .

Happy Tuesday, my friends! I made it through my crazy weekend of work and am happily back in the regular groove. I actually finished earlier than I’d expected on Sunday, so I had some time for weeding the garden, going for a walk (where I saw these beauties): Making my …