My friend Danny just got a new, as yet unnamed, puppy.  Who is half Beagle and half Pug.  The cuteness, it is killing me, and I haven’t even met the pup in person yet. No, it gets worse When he gets sad And even worse when he is tired . . . I have to […]

We spent a long weekend in and around the Shenandoah national forest.  I’d encourage you to go, but you can’t, because my dog apparently laid claim to the entire region.  He was on a serious quest.  He’s never been so dedicated to the cycle of canine hydration and evacuation is his living life. We picked […]

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 […]

No boughs have withered because of the wintry windThe boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams. That little bit of cave-dwelling miserable beauty is from Yeats, whom I love.  I stuck it out there because I’m starting to trot out wool poems over on Eating Poetry.  Check it out if you’re so […]

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 […]

Edited to add:  Wheeeee!  I won some gorgeous Alpaca from the Blogger Bingo prize pool.  Wheeeeeee!  I never win anything in drawings.  Wheeeeeee!  Thank you so much,

So, it’s birthday season.  Scott is a year and four days older than I am, and our friend Mikele’s birthday falls right before ours, and Alan’s is right after, and then Nessa, and I can’t even name everyone else who is in the October string of birthdays. I think I did a particularly good job […]

Mike and Tara took me to see Bruce Molsky as an early birthday present last night.  It was amazing.  I’ve blathered before  about the musicianship to be found in Old-Time.  I think Bruce leads the bunch.  Since he was playing solo last night, he really had a chance to show his range.  Fiddle, banjo, guitar, […]