Meanwhile…
family bed Thank you all for your kind words and support for our decision about Sadie. We miss her, but we feel very sure that we made the right choice. The day Sadie moved out was also the day of …
Breaking up
Sometimes, relationships just dont work out. Its hard, but its for the best if all involved realize that and move on. Somethings been going on around here for the past ten months that I havent been blogging about. It ended …
Yak down for a good cause
(The title of this post will surely separate the knitters from the muggles, wont it? Dear muggles, yak down is a good thing. A very very soft good thing.) I was approached today by the kind folks at Shokay, who …
Am I the only one…
…who bursts into tears when she hears “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”? It comes to this line and I just lose it:“And all that remains is the faces and the namesOf the wives and the sons and the daughters.” …
Leaving New York
When we bought this house in 2003, I was sure wed live here forever. Wed raise our kids here. Billy and I would die here, in our sleep, holding hands, in our late eighties. Apparently Billy wasnt sold on the …
Thank you, Paul McCartney
It was suggested in the comments of this post that perhaps my Beatles/Portland dream was an indication that I’d “get by with a little help from my friends.” I’ll admit that when I read that comment I smiled but also …
Yep. Here. Still here.
Sorry for the silence. Thumper and I spent the last three days visiting my mom in Jersey for Passover. Lots of time to-ing and fro-ing on NJ Transit and in cars. Lots of matzoh balls and the like. Not so …
blank canvas
I took a long, hard look at that little robot vest, and though it doesnt match up to the perfect robot head vest that lives in my head, Im not inclined to tinker with it further or knit it again. …
Dr. Robot Head or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Intarsia
But the intarsia, she doesnt love me. I had the best of intentions for this little sweater vest. The sweater that lived in my head looked so damn cute on Thumper and all of you were going to want to …
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The sweet sound of someone else cleaning my house
Ah…and the lemony scent of Pledge wafting up the stairs as well… We’re trying to have the house ready to go on the market April 7th, and there is still much much work to be done. Yesterday I had a …
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