Since I moved to the Northwest in 1984, Powell’s Bookstore on Burnside in Portland has been a favorite place where I could lose myself for hours. This Monday night life again became surreal, and I lived out a long held dream by attending a book reading there. The difference from other book readings was that [...]
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A proud mother’s dream
Posted in Books, Friends and family, Life reflections, Sock knitting on April 14, 2010 | 5 Comments »
It’s never too late for holiday gifts
Posted in Friends and family, Knitting, Life reflections, Sock knitting on March 22, 2010 | 17 Comments »
I grew up in a last-minute family. Because church didn’t start until 11 am, my mother rarely left the house before 10:50 am, even when she was the choir director, because “we live so close–it just takes a minute to get there.” When friends and relatives were invited over for dinner or for a weekend [...]
What a day and so little sock knitting to show for it….
Posted in Friends and family, Life reflections, Sock knitting on March 9, 2010 | 13 Comments »
This post is by necessity short–I’m even too tired to knit and that’s really tired! I finally got to see the Today Show segment on aarp.org and the articles posted there. I smiled as I read about teaching my daughter to knit. She loves knitting, too, and here I once thought it might skip a [...]
