Besides so often arriving home on Wednesday too tired to feel enthusiastic about shoe-blogging, I’m running out of shoes that deserve a post. Yes, there are more shoes in my wardrobe, but I’m not sure…
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In addition to yesterday’s tidbits from Nancy Milford’s Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, here’s a deliciously cheeky line from a letter she wrote to her publishers. Having been drawing advances from…
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Right now, I’m caught up on marking ’til the onslaught of final papers this week, and prep is all done, so I’ve been finding some time to read for pleasure. I’m captivated by this biography…
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There’s a certain kind of winter day here — temperatures around freezing, weak wintery sunshine, skies that mix soft greys, blues and creams as ethereally as a fine kid-mohair/silk yarn — that seems to draw…
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Here’s a pair of Mim’s Serpentine Mitts I began mid-October and finished by mid-November. They’re knit from Kroy sock yarn in a charcoal grey that I quite like, but that doesn’t show the cabling very…
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