we have been over my haphazard recipe cataloging skills before. did I ever think I'd need to change my habit of just sorting through a ...

apparently I haven't blogged about the Tour de Fleece here yet. (you can read a bit more about this July spinning challenge event thing...

this week's main project:  preparing to cross stitch a photo of our pugs, for a frame or a little stuffed pillow or some other keepsake...

last summer I was quite enamored of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass . so much of it resonated with elements I hope are part o...

I love being barefoot. I love the feeling of clean carpet or tile or concrete under my feet. love walking on cool grass or warm sand or slic...

back in the day, I thought I'd never want to teach. and then I realized that in some ways, everything everyone does can involve a layer ...

goals, of a sort, for the last two weeks of summer break: sewing . last weekend I cut out pieces for two sundresses and picked apart a long ...

it's not the most important volunteer gig in the world, but I am on the official Board of Copy Editors for a scholarly journal in the fi...

what and who do you find easy to listen to vs. difficult to listen to? I've had reason to ponder this lately, mainly with regard to dive...

about three weeks ago, the store brand of butter was on sale. so I bought six boxes. and then I realized most of it was salted instead o...

an old facebook friend of mine, a few days ago, shared this Martin Luther King Jr. quote about the inability of violence to bring peace . ...

they call this piece of geography The Granite Dells. from a distance, the rock formations look like orange mounded towers guarding the water...

it feels like I used to have so much to say. I was just ambitious enough to be confident enough to recognize all my self-doubt and still ig...

this song by the singer-actor-musician-person Hilary Duff seems to play every time I stop at the local grocery store. you can listen to it ...

I have been wanting to write something about this newsworthy mess that unfolded in Virginia ever since it happened over a month ago. but wh...

a Monday. the first Monday of winter break, post-finals-week. everything seems quite disorganized. I should be writing, revising, Librivox...

well, my rambly little list of loosely scheduled things-to-review has gotten totally thrown off course. I'm gonna be defending my diss...

a few weeks back, friend Patti (who is, for your information, the most talented twitter-ist I have had ever the pleasure to follow on twitt...

the day is ending with gratitude, somewhat diluted. I am trying not to think so much of myself this weekend. there was something on the ra...

I keep wanting to take weird photographs like this one: the sidewalk, light and shadow, pocked and smooth. the flat spaces underneath my ...