From the monthly archives:

September 2010

Lifelines

26.09.2010

So I’m knitting along. Everything is going well. I’m more than half way through and it looks like I might finish this beautiful scarf by next weekend. Sweet. Not. I still don’t know how it happened. One stitch, everything is fine. The next stitch, a one-inch section is unraveled. In lace. Not easy-to-fix-a-chimpanzee-could-do-it stockinette. Lace. [...]

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A Sweet Surprise

22.09.2010

I received a lovely surprise… My haiku “early morning…” in the premiere issue of Berry Blue Haiku was selected as one of three best in the issue—the June 2010 Picks. Thanks so much to Gisele and all the BBH staff! And for Gisele and Michele’s comments on the haiku.

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To Dip, To Skip, To Not

19.09.2010

I was flipping through Daniel Pennac’s The Rights of the Reader this morning. And in doing so, I was exercising one of my rights—(#8) To Dip In. My relationship with books is complicated. I love books. I love reading. But sometimes I don’t. Read, that is. When I was little, I read everything. When I got [...]

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Wasted Time?

13.09.2010

I spent the better part of last night knitting a new sock. Only I frogged it (that’s ripped it out in knit speak). Why? I didn’t like how it was working or how it looked. Then (after deep sighing and teeth gritting) I cast on again and began another idea. This one was going to [...]

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