too connected

These are the books that were on my Christmas list this year.  I started reading at the top and I’m now reading Why We Hate Us, by Dick Meyer.  I’ve been doing a lot of thinking while reading this book and I’ve wanted to talk about my thoughts, but have tried to hold back until [...]

circa 1979

I’ve realized a childhood dream. I’ve turned into Denise Miller. Now where’s Rex Smith?    

on obesity, the media, food conglomerates and choices

Carrie recently posted about obesity issues and rather than hijack her comment section with my own ramblings, I’m posting here.  Carrie posed the question:  Can people expect there to be consequences to the choices they make regarding what type of food they eat and the presence of exercise in their daily life.  Do you eat cheesecake or [...]

happy blogiversary

Happy blogiversary, happy blogiversary, haaaaaaaapy blogiversary! Yep, it’s been two long years that I’ve been yapping on-line.  Hard to believe.  Over the past two years, I’ve had knitting successes and disasters.  I’ve started many projects that I never finished and really should.  Like most of you, I’ve written more posts in my head than I [...]

no knittin, no spinnin

I haven’t done squat this week. Well, that’s not entirely true.  I haven’t done anything fibery.  I’ve been consumed with healthy-ing up my life, cooking and planning meals and exercising and reading books whose message all boils down to the same thing:  you are what you eat.  This is a fair representation of what I’m eating.  [...]

messy tuesday – the dare episode

My husband dared me to show this picture. Oh wait, not that one.  This one: This is a bookshelf in our tv room that has become a depository for all things that need to go up to the attic.  That’s the attic door on the right.  See – they’re *almost* there.  Yes, that’s a collection [...]

messy tuesday

I first read about Messy Tuesdays on Mel’s blog.  Felix has dubbed it anti-”pinnyporn” and as soon as I read her thoughts on the matter, I knew this was something I had to participate in.  We all try to present our home in the best light possible, making sure the clutter is off to the side, [...]

yarn as a metaphor

When we were hiking the other week, I started thinking about fiber and how it relates to our lives.  How it is so similar to our lives, our very essence. We humans are a lot like fiber.  When we’re born, we’re soft bits of fluff.  We have a lot of potential, but we’re not very strong.  We rely [...]

maybe it’s just me

This morning started out pretty much like normal.  And then I started thinking and haven’t stopped since.  I miss my family, especially during the holidays.  It’s hard adjusting to being part of a new family who do things differently and it seems even harder if their way of doing things is better; it’s almost like [...]

$13.75 plus tax

I noticed these in my LYS recently and decided to get a pair. They’re supposed to make sock knitting even faster because you just knit around and around, no fiddling with dpns, no pulling cables through or needles dangling.  Just knit.  Around and around and around. This got me thinking about knitting, and about knitting [...]

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