It’s been a quiet week leading up to a long weekend. Monday is a statutory holiday in honour of Queen Victoria. I’m sorry. I’m a royalist and I celebrate our connections to Britain, if only for the traditions that give purpose and meaning (maybe) to our lives. The 24th of May, or whenever it is […]
….what is there about tragedy, misery and general dismay that makes us start to “sort things out?” I know everyone has their preferred method of dealing with s**t. Please fill me in. I need more “ammo” for the arsenal of handling a**holes. Generally, I cope with the nastiness life throws at me, by burying myself
…… My writing partner has given the next challenge – “My Stuff.” It couldn’t come at a better time. The change of seasons always makes me re-examine “my stuff.” This would be the bits and bobs, flotsam and jetsam of a life spent grappling with the creative process. I know creativity takes many routes, all
The word for our third memory challenge is “ply.” It’s a simple 3 letter word with a depth of meaning, no pun intended. “Ply,” as a noun, means “layering.” As a verb it is often defined as “pushing on,” layering ones efforts repeatedly to achieve an end. I have dealt with ply in an industrial
I’m back to coupled writing! After a break for the holidays, my writing partner and I have again begun giving each other words for posts. My word is “conundrum,” taken from the latest book by Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers – more on the book later. I love conundrum. It sounds like the bumbling fools
I have mentioned before about a knitting retreat, I help plan with 7 other women. It’s held every April at The Fern Resort in Orillia ON. We start working on it in September and try to have the classes up on the website by the end of November. Everyone else has a pretty clear idea
I have a list of “things to do.” These are long term projects, such as, writing a novel, creating some Art, finishing a fair isle sweater that I started a long time ago, etc, etc. There are, of course, always more important things to do before doing the really important things – like, tending to
Another word to write about (about which to write)….I may be catching up, but I may also be losing it!! Adjustments….let me count the ways. How many times in a day, an hour, even a minute, do we make adjustments? Smooth the hair, settle the jacket, sniff, blink….. It’s those unconscious movements or moments that
My word for this post is “patches.” Finally, I found sometime to write. I know I’ve been holding up my writing partner, but I got a rush of orders for Infiknit and well the orders come first!! Anyway, the delay has given me time to think about the word. It is actually my word, in
