Archive for August, 2014
Worldcon?
I just learned that Worldcon 2015 is in Spokane. I was thinking it might be fun to go, maybe take the train there. But first, who else out there is planning to go? It would definitely be more fun if I know more people. I realize everyone’s got friends they meet up with at cons […]
new sweater!
I always know it’s going to be a good day at work when I get to wear something I’ve made for the first time. No matter what happens at work, I have proof of my competence, right there on my back – “Well, you may have worked at this company for twenty years and know […]
musing
Forgive me if this is long-winded and driveling; something just hit me but I’m not sure I’ll be able to explain it. When I was a teenager in the 1980s, I was friends with some neighbors whose kids I babysat – still am friends, at least in a vague Facebook-and-holiday-card way. Obviously they were older, […]
Penderwicks news, muse on vacation
Nice way to start a week – apparently the fourth Penderwicks book, The Penderwicks in Spring, is due out next March. Also, this, drafted on the lake last Saturday: Puddles fade behind us and a distant mountain rises to overtop the tall tree on which I center our stern as we row the lake’s length. […]
“you are not free to desist from the work”
A woman named Sharon Ann Burnston wrote this on Ravelry (reposted with permission) and I loved it so much I wanted to save it here. Tis is really the first thing I’ve ever read that makes the Judeo-Christian concept of a Messiah make sense to me, as anything more than idle wish fulfillment. When I […]