I just looked it up and I’ve been doing One Little Word (with more or less success/focus) since 2013! That’s 10 years of words to guide me and help shape my year. I’m a fan of just letting my word come to me and not giving it too much thought, and this year’s word came […]
How to Introduce Cats to the Outdoors
The kittens are a year old now, which I guess doesn’t make them kittens anymore, so we decided it was time to make them indoor outdoor cats. Here’s how to introduce cats to the outdoors safely and some things to think about when you do. Pros and Cons of Indoor/Outdoor Cats I know not everyone […]
Knitting a Scarf for the End of the World
Last night we had some friends over for pizza and drinks on the back porch. Each time we do it feels a little more normal, a little less fraught. We’re all as vaxxed as can be (other than the girl, who hasn’t had her booster yet) and relatively cautious about exposure to other people. It’s […]
A Little Word for 2022: Release
I’ve been coming up with a little word for each year since 2013 (though I haven’t always written about it). I don’t always do a great job of keeping the word on my mind through the year — last year’s word, experiment, didn’t come up much in my daily life — but each year I […]
A Pep Talk for Creatives Who Just Don’t Want to
I use my morning pages as a conversation with myself pretty often, and this pep talk for creatives came out in pieces over days. It’s what I needed to tell myself; maybe you need someone to tell it to you, too. First, can we just establish that this last the last almost two years has […]
Once Upon a Time There Was a Mountain
When I interviewed with Brian for the editing job at the University of Arkansas Press, I’m sure we talked about all the usual things you are supposed to talk about at job interviews, such as my experience (newspaper editing and avid reading) and why I wanted to leave the paper (night work sucks when your […]
Crafting a Legacy
The world lost a feminist icon and a brilliant jurist with the passing of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and just a day later the knitting world lost one of its own luminaries with the death of designer and creative genius Cat Bordhi. Both of these deaths have made me sad for different reasons. […]