It’s official–my old computer is no more.  Fried.  Cooked.  Crispy.  Roasted beyond repair.  The damage was apparently done while I was in beautiful Walker Valley New York for the KR Retreat.  I use a surge suppressor, so it should have been safe, but it wasn’t.  I’m annoyed, but the thing was seven years old, couldn’t […]

I was just packing to head out for the Knitter’s Review Retreat (not to rub it in, but, well, I’m a gonna rub it in just a tiny bit.  The awesomeness of finally getting to go to this retreat!), when I got an email from my dear friend Jeanne that just made me well up. […]

All sorts of beginnings, and thus endings.  Samhain marks the new year in the Celtic calendar.  And the Day of the Dead is coming.   I’ve been consciously trying to slow down lately, and it’s hard for me.  So I started all sorts of new projects, but I rationalized such behavior as rational and good, since […]

Not dead.  Swamped at work. Bill and Shirley, the keepers of the llamas-in-law are in town, so we’re showing them some great things about Virginia and DC.  I even managed to take pictures. I’ve been working away on Print o’ the Wave, on some sock ideas (which all get frogged), and on a circular needle […]

Bloglines sux.  I’ve added some more vacation posts, but bloglines won’t tell you that for some mysterious reason.  Please scroll back for your voyeuristic pleasure. In other news, I’m definitely going to Rhinebeck (and hoping to drag Ruadhan and Etaine with me), and I may also be going to the Knitter’s Review retreat.  Woot! I’ve […]

A few weeks ago, we left home to go home to our tribe.    We’re back, safe and sound.  And a little sad that we couldn’t stretch the experience out for a while longer.  We had a wonderful time.  I built a village with friends, I cooked for friends, I ate with friends, I laughed […]