The small linen quilt is finally finished.  It took about 20 minutes of quilting.  Sadly, it also took about 6o miles of driving, spread out into many, many trips to regional fabric stores.  I’m not proud of that. For whatever reason, I started the quilting on this top using just the right green thread, ignoring […]

D is for daffodil I’m cheating a bit–these photos are from last year’s garden.  I’ve been waiting for this year’s to bloom, but they’re just not going to be ready in time. I love daffodils because I love Wales, and mythology, and spring.  It is that simple. These plain old big yellow daffodils are iconic, […]

American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Look kids–I still read!  I know it’s been a while since I’ve reminded you of that.  Thinking about audio book reviews has messed with my regular paper book review thoughts a bit. Right, so, my wonderful friend and co-blogger Jeanne has been recommending this book to me for years.  Years.  […]

I can’t drive on Valentine’s Day.  I’ve done it six times, and three of those times I’ve been in very bad car accidents.  I’m not a particularly superstitious person, but I can do basic math and those are horrible odds.  So I arranged to take today off.  I also arranged to have PT and my […]

C is for Contra dance, and Clogging–two long-standing passions of mine (and two things that are downright tough to photograph). I haven’t talked about either enough here on the blog, because I’ve been dealing with a few chronic injuries over the last several years, and it’s been keeping me off the dance floor more than […]

I spent last weekend with the other Preachainees, celebrating Imbolc the best way we know how–with forges.  Imbolc is Brigid’s holiday, and Brigid is all about creation and transformation, poetry and smithcraft.  We keep Imbolc really casual, because it’s generally very cold outside, which makes planning a camping event tough.  We converge on someone’s house, […]