Tatoos of Devotion: A Lesson About Love and Forgiveness
At this writing it is early on the morning of December 11, 2011. My five-year-old son is standing in front of me as I type. He wears a sheep-skin aviator hat (as I do, actually) and a Mighty Mouse...
View ArticleHow I learned to ski and why talking (back) to yourself is a good trick to know
I recently learned to downhill ski. I am even respectable on blue slopes at this point and can’t wait to get on a pair of skis again. It was, however, not easy to get to this moment. For some, such a...
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The Fish Pond Summer Saga begins . . .
IT’S TUESDAY! You might have noticed my silence yesterday. . . I was in a quandary. About what to blog? I wanted to tell you about my fish. . . but felt compelling to write about knitting. Knitting...
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At the Lakehouse, where I wrote the book
On Friday night there were spectacular storms that knocked out the power in our neighborhood and, according to some reports I’ve heard, in many neighborhoods all up and down the East Coast. We had been...
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Gone Fishing . . . Official Talking Across the Pond Post Later . . . Happy 4th!
Truly. We’ve gone fishing. We left the house at 5:30 am this morning, July 4th, to go Walleye fishing on Lake Huron. Weather has been curious. Yesterday, the tide came in, went out (extremely), then...
View ArticleKnitting on Vacation: Unexpected Solutions for Common Problems
Sometimes when you are on vacation you forget some of your tools at home. . . sometimes this is a great opportunity to shop at the local yarn shop. Sometimes there is no local yarn shop! Here are my...
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Best Apple Pie Ever, if I do say so myself . . .
i don’t know what the weather is like where you live. . . but where I live it’s COOOOOLD! And when the weather gets cold, I make apple pie. The pie above is a picture of the Christmas apple pie I made...
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Beguiling Golden Finches, Part 1
I have a series of bird feeders that I can see from my kitchen window. This year, I am concentrating on luring Goldfinches to these feeders. I have, according to the FAQ I recently read about...
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Summer Pleasures: Making Simple Syrup with My Son
Roses are in bloom here in the East. My own New Dawn climbing rose, trained on an east-facing wall of my house, is spectacular. Beneath it, on the brick path, is a bed of pale pink fallen petals. Now...
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