Grief took everything that was holding my world together and disjointed it from itself. My cognitive structure was fractured, like a skeleton discovered by an archaeologist, laid neatly on a table, but with no joints touching anymore. This disconnect seemed to take a while to set in, but it happened in an instant. What took … More Though He Slay Me – A Preface
This is a poem that I wrote in my head over the course of several migraines. If you think it’s depressing, I apologize. I think it’s hilarious, and it cheers me up. This is for all those fellow headache-sufferers out there, most of whom probably have more legit reasons for your pain than being dehydrated. … More Eating Toast in the Dark
As I mentioned yesterday, I’m up to my eyeballs in design. It’s a weird process, designing things, and when I started trying to do it all the time, it got even weirder. Before, I would just design things as they occurred to me. A vision for a project would spring, fully-formed, into my head, and … More Like a Box of Chocolates
Right now, I am in the unusual position that everything I have on the needles is my own design. And half of them are gifts. So I really have nothing to show you, despite the fact that I really am knitting feverishly. I did, however, find occasion to do something I had never done before … More First Time Out
Also, I have different hair! Halloween was the Big Reveal on the new ‘do, but I was so distracted by new knitwear that I totally forgot to post about it. The Side Shot: This chop had been a long time in coming, and it feels really good. I’m still learning to style it – me … More Oh, Right!
It is part of our unique brand of weirdness that the hubsband and I have started playing Dungeons and Dragons (to allay the fears this hobby will raise in some: it is all good fantasy fun; we are not worshiping demons or any such like. We’re just a band of adventurers out to have a … More Heroes of the Oak
On the long list of little things Mum and I got done while I was briefly home last week – has it been over a week already? Sheesh. – we did a delayed photo shoot of several samples. These two, the Beaded Tunic Sweater and the Rose of Edgeworth, are already published patterns, but I … More Spring for Fall
Sometimes in life, major tragedies happen. Then there’s everything else. Let me explain. When I dye yarn, after I rinse it, I spin it in my washing machine to get all the excess water out. This makes it dry a good bit faster. I’ve done this dozens of times, and at least once in my … More Disentangling
Reading week was a lot of fun. Now it is over, and I realize just how much TV I watched. Mostly because folks keep asking me, “what did you do during reading week?” and my gleeful response is, “I watched TV!” I don’t regret it for a second, at least partially because I also did … More For Reals
This week began with the most epic TV binge I’ve had in a while. TV usually leaves my brain in a pile of steaming poo, but the Doctor has the ability to amp up my creativity like few other creative franchises I’ve run across. It also enabled me to do a completely sick amount of … More Good Influence
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