Vest-ed Interest in the Classroom

My classes are over after the first week back, and, unsurprisingly, I’m exhausted — I always find that putting myself “out there” for several classrooms full of new faces runs the battery down very quickly.…

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Still Catching up on Movies

Not sure why I feel I have to do this, but I do want to record movies I’ve seen here — I suspect I’ve forgotten a few, but here’s my last effort to get up…

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A Trio of Mysteries

Now that classes have started, it’s less and less likely that I’ll ever get round to writing anything more than a mention of my most recent reading — in the last few weeks of summer,…

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Thoughts on Knitting Inefficiency

I posted this over here, but also want it here as part of the record of my reading. Sorry for the duplication: Last summer, I quoted from a BC Bookworld review of Shannon Stratton’s essay…

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For the Value of INefficiency — hurrah!

Last summer, I quoted from a BC Bookworld review of Shannon Stratton’s essay “Getting Things Done: On Needlecraft and Free Time,” published in Volume III of Craft Perception and Practice: A Canadian Discourse, edited by…

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