hanging onto the sunshine
I look out my window towards Vancouver to see a thin sliver of possible sunshine, but not much above the horizon is a solid mass of darkly-hovering cloud. The 5-day forecast is for drizzle, showers,…
View Post
That’s my boy. . .
My son commented on the phone the other evening that he’d read my latest blog post and thought it was cool that we were doing the 100-mile diet. I reminded him that what I’d said…
View PostMore sun! More waves! More sand!
I’m paraphrasing Zoom at Sea, a wonderful children’s book by Tim Wynne-Jones. I can’t look up the exact quotation ’cause the book’s long gone to the bookshelves of my grown-up daughter, but I think I’m…
View Postwell, you can’t knit shoes . . .
but I’m going to show you some anyway. I thought, for a change of pace, I’m going to occasionally give you something from my shoe wardrobe, and tell you a bit of their history. And…
View Postsomething for everyone — reading, knitting, gardening
Quite some time ago, I promised you a piece of knitlit — specifically, an excerpt about knitting from a wonderfully rich book that some critics have called an Indian detective novel: Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games.…
View Post- Newer Posts
- 1
- …
- 567
- 568
- 569
- 570
- 571
- 572
- 573
- 574
- Older Posts