I’m still awaiting the return of my laptop, crossing my fingers that it will come home in full working order. In the meantime, I went to the Knitters’ Review retreat, and it was as wonderful as ever. I am perennially astounded by the wonderful teachers, merchants, and guests Clara rounds up every year. The classes […]

Do you know what I love even more than knitting? Reading. Do you know who I still miss every single day? Our dear friend Mike Dobbs, who died far too young this spring. Mike was a Reader. He read with a voracity and speed I envy beyond rubies. He’d read anything. He’d occasionally read 100 […]

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter This is a wonderful little book of stories. I first became aware of Carter’s writing when I was a kid, finding Neil Jordan’s film adaptation of Carter’s story, The Company of Wolves. I loved the movie and watched it over and over again. I finally found it on DVD […]

And then my hard drive died. Sigh. I have so much to tell you, but the laptop is pretending to be a brick, and it’s just one hard thing too many.  I know it’s not really a brick, and I’m hopeful that all will be well once Scot installs the new (bigger! faster!) hard drive […]