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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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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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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It’s been rather satisfying, lately, to be finishing off a number of knitting projects — here’s a pair of socks destined for my Pilates instructor who suffers from chilblains, especially when she comes back from…
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Above, a photo of a Duchess of Edinburgh clematis bud ready to blossom in the September sun. Below, another that has already opened its pretty white petals. This is a rare second blossoming for this…
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