Wearing my Icarus

I’ve just posted to my first Knitalong, a blog devoted to knitting the Icarus shawldesigned by Miriam Felton and published in Interweave Knits, Summer 2006. Ideally, a knitter would post several times to a KAL…

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Weekend Tidbits

Somewhat random observations over the weekend: 1. Sad to hear that Madeleine L’Engle died this weekend, but at 88, she’d had a full life. My younger sister introduced me to A Wrinkle in Time in…

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one week done, twelve more to go!

Well, that wasn’t too bad. I’ve made it through the first week of classes, and I’m feeling fairly optimistic about the term. Besides doing a 4-hour weekly stint in the Writing Centre, I have three…

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My First-Day-Back-to-School Shoes this Wednesday

This is the pair of shoes that caught my eye in the shop on Rue St. HonorĂ© in Paris last May — I already showed you the other pair I bought at the same time,…

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heading back to school

More of you participated in the “September changes” poll than any other I’ve held so far — partly just increasing traffic round these parts (yay!), but also just indicative of what a big deal “la…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.