Exhaustion has hit a new level this week. We had busy week followed by a weekend away (having little kids, there’s no reason to bother calling it a “vacation”) followed by another busy week ending with giving a sermon. Maybe baby’s having a growth spurt too, since I fall asleep at 9, wake up at … More In Which I Try Not to Whine
We’ve been on vacation in the woods for about the last twenty-four hours. The day’s big event was a morning hike on top of a mountain. The light was so startlingly bright and stark, I couldn’t help taking pictures. I would call it poignant, but it wasn’t melancholic. It just was what it … More Stark Light
It is really October. As so often happens, this month seems to have flown by, yet when I look at some of the foods at the beginning of this post, I can’t believe we had them only a month ago. This also means, there’s only a month left in our CSA! Our last delivery comes … More CSA-ccountability, Month #6 – September/October
I have been working on the same spinning project for over two years now. It all started with this grand plan, associated with the Lothlorien cape designed by Susan Pandorf. I loved the gradient the sample was made in, but I did not want to pay out the nose for the yarn suggested. (Over two … More The Long Spin
Naomi will be twenty months old in a week. In two months, she’s gone from a handful of words to a storm of continual vocabulary expansion. As a casual linguist (having studied linguistics as part of my anthropology degree, and spending eight years of my life basically planning to be a linguist), this is a … More Toddler Linguistics
Meet “Pat”: a little tiny blurry blob whose name will be Osborn. We found out “Pat” (not his/her actual future name) was coming right before my last week of CPE started, though we suspected for a few weeks before that. (Aren’t you glad you didn’t have to listen to me whine and stress through all that … More Next
Every year that I have lived in Pennsylvania, this weird thing has happened right around October 15th. For weeks now, we have been seriously bracing ourselves for fall. My sweater collection is washed and in full rotation, and I wear exclusively wool socks. The heat has come on a couple times, and and the furnace … More The Ides of October
If you’re any kind of catholic and have heard mass in another language, you may have had the surreal experience of recognizing where the priest is in the liturgy by the flow of his words, even though you don’t speak the language. I’ve only made two hard cheeses now, but I’m already starting to recognize … More The Unprocessed Process
With all these food updates, you might wonder if I’ve forgotten how to knit. I wonder that myself some days, but the truth is that I have been knitting as much as ever. The trouble is, I can’t stick with one of these projects long enough to finish. I’ll be really into a project for … More Stitching in Place
My house smells divine at this moment. There are tomatoes slow-roasting in the oven, but the dominant smell is that of kale. Kale, sandwiched between potatoes and a whole chicken, in a crockpot. Fall is food. The ebullient joy and mad anxious rush of harvest-time, gathering in and putting up for winter. Storing up beauty … More Putting Up Apples
Osborn Fiber Studio 