Knitting New England

In my freelance life I've been given the enjoyable assignment of knitting up toys for a venerable yarn company. The latest completed pro...

Claude takes time to smell the crocuses. Claude the Caterpillar is the latest member of my knitted toys family. He's a free p...

Some years ago we dined in Wethersfield, Connecticut, because H had been seduced by incessant t.v. ads for a restaurant promising a meal cal...

Stay warm!

Don't you love that passive verb statement-- mistakes were made- -which so neatly sidesteps accountability? Well, sometimes, if you...

Must. Slow. Down. And maybe hibernate for a while, as January would encourage? Approaching the seventh decade of my life, I'm swiftly re...

Last week and the week before we were clutched by the Polar Vortex and it was totally f-ing cold.  The only open water hereabouts was in ...