Mother’s Day
Sunday, May 10th, 2009“Everyone talks about Mother’s Day, but nobody does anything about it.”
Wait, that’s not right. Lots of people do lots of stuff for Mother’s Day: they send cards and flowers, they take their mothers, sisters and wives out for brunch or tea, they present the honorees with chocolates and jewelry. Some take a quiet [...]
Treasure Trove
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Although I didn’t learn knitting from any of my grandmas who did fiberwork, I do come by it honestly, and on my visit to the family homestead in April, Mom let me pick out some samples of my great-grandma Delphia’s needlework to keep. I’ve yet to branch out from knitting, but if anything [...]
Iowa Spring
Monday, May 26th, 2008Oh, hello, blog! How’ve you been? My, you haven’t changed a bit! Me? Oh, you know, the usual: lots of working and walking, reading and knitting. I took a trip back to the homestead in April, and had a great week of relaxing and visiting with the family. Would [...]
Bookish Vacation
Sunday, October 8th, 2006Sorry about the gap in posting, but I’ve been working a grueling 2-days-a-week schedule for nearly a month now; I’m sure you can imagine how fast that catches up to a person.
Hee hee! Okay, first I was on vacation, then I went back to work for three days, then I went out [...]