I should be telling you what a wonderful time I had at the river with the girls.  But that will have to wait. I should be telling you how great it was getting together with the other girls so the lovelies could teach a spinning class at Potomac Celtic Festival and let the students take […]

Around this time every year, some of my girl-friends from Celt-land and I head down to the Western Shore of the Potomac River.  Each year, we have a theme.  This year’s theme is “fish and fiber.”  We’re going to fish, and we’re going to play with fiber.  I am one excited chicky, lemmetellya. We will […]

Old Men in New Cars I netflixed this movie specifically because a knitter suggested it.  But I put it on my list long enough ago that I completely forgot it was Danish.  So I put it into the DVD player, and got very confused that these folks had such a difficult-to-place accent.  I’m not sure […]

I laughed my ass off reading this. All us booksellers sure do appreciate the money we’ve made off of you Mr. Brown, but oh Lordy, how you deserve it. Almost inconceivably, even.

This has been really hard to write, because there is simply too much to say.  Each day really was several days long. Every year, I go to the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival to help out at the Tuatha booth.  In theory, demonstrating Iron-Age wool-, leather-, and flax-working techniques and discussing Hallstatt, La Tene, and […]

The Poetry Foundation has been busy. They conducted a study revealing that “the vast majority (90 percent) of American readers highly value poetry and believe it enriches the lives of those who read it.” Does that mean these people actively read poetry? Um, no. “Apart from brief, incidental encounters with poetry in public places, a […]

<p>While we’re here on our musical sojourn . . .</p> <p>As I think I’ve made clear, I’m not one for treacle.&nbsp; I think music and poetry have much larger roles to fulfill than just supplying &quot;pretty.&quot;&nbsp; Verse, whether read or sung, allows the transmission of giant, important truths of existence, whether they’re nice or not.&nbsp; […]