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June 05, 2018 2 min read
I never got into the whole scrapbooking thing. Although I admire those lovely testaments to life and times, it was not a hobby that called to me. And yet, the idea of collecting and displaying mementos is enormously appealing. Whether it's a lovely decorated album, a playbill collection, or a shelf of travel souvenirs, we all want more
May 21, 2018 2 min read
We're none of us born patient, as a baby's wails demanding immediacy can attest. But we learn as we grow that we must wait, and we find that we can. We wait for big things and small alike -- our loved ones to return home, our gardens to grow, and our turn to cross the street. Waiting is hard, plain and simple. more
May 14, 2018 2 min read
Earlier this month I gave those subscription meal boxes a try. I must say that it was both convenient and extremely satisfying to have an answer for the universal question asked by nearly all men the world over: What's for dinner?
I didn't have to figure out a menu, choose side dishes, or go to the grocery store. All I had to do was open the box and cook what was in it. No thinking, no planning, no shopping. Just cooking. After 5 weeks on and off, I cancelled the subscription, because the truth is, I missed the planning more
May 09, 2018 2 min read
April 30, 2018 2 min read 3 Comments
Every good boy does fine, Kings prefer chocolate over fudge generally speaking, Roy G. Biv. These crazy nonsensical phrases are all a type of mnemonic device that helped me remember things I had to learn in school. The notes of a treble staff, the 7 levels of biological taxonomy, and the colors of light in the visible spectrum. None of these lists has been particularly useful to me as an adult, but still
April 09, 2018 2 min read 5 Comments
My youngest, Colton, had just turned two when I opened the shop, so I find it quite remarkable to report that last week I took him to get his learner's permit. Time flies for sure. As we were out for his very first driving experience, was pretty comfortable maneuvering the car on the small road to our house. Backing more
April 02, 2018 2 min read 15 Comments
March 27, 2018 2 min read 18 Comments
Like so many of you, I have struggled all week with the loss of sweet Jaelynn Willey. Her death was a personal tragedy for her family and close friends, but it has also impacted the wider community and shaken us to our very core.
I will not pretend to have had a special relationship with Jaelynn, because I did not. I knew her only through the shop where she was a student in some of my classes and a knitter at our table. She and her mom and sisters were Saturday regulars. When they would come in together, it was like the sun breaking more
March 20, 2018 2 min read
I’m super excited that we have our March Manos Madness event this weekend with piles and piles of beautiful new yarn from one of my favorite hand-dye companies. The name, or course, is a play on the NCAA basketball event. I’m not sure if they call it March Madness because there are so many games or because more
March 12, 2018 2 min read
It's cold and rainy outside my window, but that's okay because I know spring is not far off. I bought two big bunches of tulips today because I am hungry for spring and everything that is fresh and new and happy. As a friend reminded me, it is time for me to put on color. It is time for the whole earth to put on color, and what a show of colors we have for spring!
Spring knitting is my favorite because it's plenty cold, so I can still knit with and wear wool, but I get to play with those beautiful refreshing colors of spring. After
March 07, 2018 1 min read
I've spent the past few weeks handling all the things that need handling when someone you love passes away. The big things, like the funeral, are hard because it is all so raw, but, they are also easy because wonderful and caring professionals who deal with this all the time are on hand to help. It's all the little things that have to be done. It's the dozens and dozens of tiny tasks, more
February 26, 2018 2 min read
Going through my mom's boxes looking for pictures to use for her service, I found all kinds of treasures she'd saved -- from letters of my misery at summer camp to scrawling drawings I'd done. Even then it was clear that my talents were verbal rather than artistic. Despite her encouragement and indulgence with all manner of media, I simply never progressed past stick figures and their landscape equivalent. That's okay, because drawing was never my interest -- I only drew things more
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