When last heard from, I was packing to go off to Germany and The Netherlands with my daughter. The trip’s purpose was a book tour, timed with the release of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” in German and Dutch. Several weeks ago I bumped into a former knitting student who said she’d been watching this [...]
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Remembering Berlin
Posted in Books, Classes, Friends and family, Knitting, Sock knitting on January 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Ready, Set, Go
Posted in Friends and family, Knitting on September 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I can’t believe I’m packed and ready to go and it’s not morning yet. And the carry-on bag actually zips shut, although my additional carry-on “personal item” may generate some questions. I have a purse, an iPad, knitting, a few books, and a lot of cords, chargers for all sorts of stuff, a couple of [...]
Tincture of time
Posted in Books, Friends and family, Knitting, Life reflections on September 11, 2010 | 5 Comments »
My physician gave me a wonderful phrase to use in thinking about the loss of the dogs—the “tincture of time.” It is more than seven weeks since I last blogged, and the tincture is working! Today I walked through the Farmers’ Market a block away from where I live. The sun was wonderfully warm, despite [...]
Not enough water to cushion the blow!
Posted in Friends and family, Life reflections on July 19, 2010 | 13 Comments »
In my last blog entry, almost six weeks ago now, I explored how I’ve jumped into new experiences at various times without being fully prepared or understanding what they would entail. I ended that blog by thinking lovingly of Mac, our older dog and wondering if maybe I didn’t have something to learn from him. [...]
A mutant Citron
Posted in Friends and family, Knitting, Life reflections, Sock knitting on May 24, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Meditational knitting is a good way to travel –either out of or back into real life. I’ve been doing this recently and have hit upon an attractive mutation of a little shawlette pattern in the process. In a previous post I mentioned knitting “Citron” (designed by Hilary Smith Callis and featured in Knitty.com, Winter 2009). [...]
Fountain Pen Lace for a writer
Posted in Books, Friends and family, Knitting, Project Gallery on May 20, 2010 | 7 Comments »
What a gift it’s been to have several visits with my daughter Rebecca during her four-month long tour to promote her best selling nonfiction book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” She reported on facebook last week that the movie rights have been purchased by Oprah, Alan Ball and HBO—-and so away she goes into [...]
It’s never too late for Mother’s Day
Posted in Friends and family, Life reflections on May 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In early April I received a Harry & David gift catalog announcing that “it’s not too late for Mother’s Day.” In previous years I’d sent plants and gift towers of treats from this catalog to honor Mom: Although positive thinking is usually a strength of mine, I saw the catalog and thought, “nope, it’s too [...]
Retreating to the Oregon coast
Posted in Friends and family, Knitting on May 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In April, now more than a month ago <gulp>, I attended Fort Vancouver Knitting Guild’s first retreat, held in Manzanita, OR. This great weekend featured friends, food, yarn, yarn shops, knitting, beach walking and more knitting. What I loved most of all was being able to get to know other guild members better than is [...]
Another UFO finished
Posted in Friends and family, Knitting, Project Gallery on April 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
There’s no more effective motivator for me than the end of something —-the end of a day, week, month or year. Having an even slightly cleaner slate for moving forward seems to make life suddenly full of new possibilities. This “completed UFO/end-of-the-month” project might be counted by purists as a “new” project. Since I’m into reducing [...]
April hasn’t been a cruel month…
Posted in Friends and family, Knitting, Life reflections on April 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Centuries ago Chaucer called April “the cruelest month”. Especially this April, with its special family time, has been wonderful rather than cruel, although I suspect that tomorrow’s newspaper will report that we broke a record for the most consecutive days of measureable precipitation. There could be worse things than having grey, rainy days, even though [...]
