I should be gardening. I have been gardening, but I can’t quite manage any good photos because it’s been raining all month. Let me not dwell. Despite the rain, Maryland Sheep and Wool was as wonderful as ever. We had a relatively painless set-up despite the rain, because Jennifer was able to pull the truck […]

I  let this blog fall by the wayside while I became enmeshed in real world things.  I’ve gotten divorced–it was amicable but it was still hard.  I sold my house, watched my beloved dog reach the end of his days, helped care for my Aunt through the last months of her life, moved into my Aunt’s […]

It’s just scar tissue! My Mom is ok. I have never felt more fortunate, or more relieved.

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks measuring and cataloging and giving some serious consideration to all of my supplies and tools here in my sweatshop studio.  I officially have an embarrassment of riches, my friends.  I knew that before I started, but now that I have a handy spreadsheet with all of the details […]

And this is when I start feeling like a bad non-custodial parent . . . Seriously!  I’m back!  No really, I promise.  I do love you more than I love, you know, all that stuff I do when I’m away from you.  I do!* I also feel like I’ve said that before and not followed […]

Ugh.  Just, ugh.  And guh. I’ve been doing some organizing and housekeeping so I can finally take down the old Typepad version of this blog, and replacing old photos has me covering my eyes and sniveling.  Sheeeesh, I have posted some ugly, ugly photos.  I’m sorely tempted to just delete all of the bad ones, […]

And some jerk hacked my site, and blah blah excuse excuse excuse.  Photos coming, I promise, of Gulf Wars, and Celt Wars, and some knitting.  As usual, I have more pictures than are really appropriate for a blog post, so I’m messing with galleries and other such nonsense.  But all is well, and Mom is […]

And I’m off!  I am heading to the Gulf Coast with my living history group for a big fun event, and I can’t wait.  We skipped Celtic Summer Camp last year so I could be home for one of my Mom’s surgeries, so I feel like I’m in withdrawal.  I’ll see friends from all over […]

It’s been a year since our dear friend Mike Dobbs died.  I can say without hesitation it was the most difficult year of my life.  Losing Mike, my Mom’s cancer, Scott’s Mom’s cancer, lay-offs, my freak vocal chord injury . . . I know there were other terrible blows, but I  honestly can’t remember all […]

At long last . . . proof that I’ve been out and about with my camera. After a long day at Rhinebeck: Clara signing the Knitters Book of Wool at the KR Retreat A Hedgerow Gathering. Minh, waiting to get into the marketplace at the KR retreat: More soon!