Low Genetic Batteries

It’s such a  Monday today. Usually I like Mondays; I really do. Quiet returns as all working folk head back to their offices, but today I am beat. Apparently my old life (late-night reading or weekend Milongas [tango dances], sleeping in late) no longer agrees with my knew self-employed working life–the one where i spend my [...]

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Another day, a dozen more Mythbusters.

Winter has returned and I’m deliriously pleased. Wrapped in sweater and scarf, it’s chilly enough for a hat too.
I mailed the scarflette all the way to New Jersey in a recycled tea box. The fit was perfect. I can see all the wonderful boxes I discard (recycle) on a regular basis. Toothpaste box: fabulous for jewelery [...]

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The Chocolate Chip Man Scarf

I walked up to a stranger today and asked him if he wouldn’t mind trying on the scarf I just finished crocheting. It’s for my new men’s line. Men seem under-utilized in the accessories dept. The scarf is great, a dark chocolate with specks of avocado, orange, a buttery yellow, a lighter mocha. It looks eatable. [...]

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Wet Wool and Warm Memories

Good Sunday morning–though it’s nearing noon. Morning is a very foggy area. Morning is whenever I don the tangible world, whenever that is.
I come from a family of staunch morning people–all of the living anyway. My granny was a night owl, like me. She read historical romance novels at night when it was quiet. Everyone [...]

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Fog vs. Drizzle or Mornings w/o Coffee or Yarn

It is drizzling today, the near cousin of fog. I don’t know how people survive in England or Seattle. (No offense. I like those places. I love Seattle, would move there in a heartbeat, except for the drizzle.) I was born for sunny weather, I’m afraid . . . but then not too sunny. Not [...]

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