I hope everyone is staying healthy during this weird time. I find myself thinking about what it must have been like in 1918 with the Spanish flu. Then as now, there were folks who realized social distancing was necessary. My grandparents, all four of them, apparently did so since they all survived, but they were a tough lot. My father's [...]
It has been a year since I last wrote anything on this site. The changes and upheavals I, my family, and the world have experienced are certainly more than I could have predicted last year this time. The Covid-19 pandemic is reshaping how we do everything again - jostling me out of my routine and requiring me to re-evaluate my [...]
Happy Passover/Easter everyone! I have been away from this for a long time, it seems. Now that I look back, I see I haven't really written anything since last year. Lots of weaving spinning, and knitting - just not much writing. In any case, spring is springing, the birds are singing, and I feel the urge to get back to [...]
Traveling doesn't seem to lend itself to weaving, for some reason. My suspicion is that it requires a block of time when one isn't on the beach. This summer, I wisely warped my looms for weaving before I left. When we returned, I sat right down and started weaving. As is often the case, I am inspired by my fellow [...]
We've done it! Our 4,000 miles from one coast to the other is quite a trek but it also provides a breather - a different environment, a different approach, a different daily effort. The beach is as beautiful as always even if those mosquitoes are crazy bad (as are the deer flies) and I am allergic enough to both that [...]
