Author: Annie

Angelfire StudiosYesterday was a luxurious day – I taught a class at a magnificent yarn shop, I only had to drive 30 minutes to get there, I had an exceptionally fun and high spirited group of students and we laughed so hard I thought we’d break some of the cool pottery that graces this yarn…

Water is hard to get (and getting harder – the limited resource of the future?) In drought stricken areas of the world water is the number one need. It takes time to walk to a pump, it takes energy to carry gallons of water and the folks who carry most of the water are (no…

No Glasses – by a HUGE margin. You’re all correct, and so is my husband, AND the photographer. I think I liked the glasses one because, to my muddled mind, it makes me look about 6 months younger (as if that’s a good thing…) AND my nose is slightly less Aunt Wanda-esque (the one who…

Okay, I had some photos taken by a friend and I’d like your feedback on which one you’d use for a book jacket cover if you were me. The photographer really likes the non-eyeglass Annie. I like the glasses. This was about the least painful of photo sessions, but that had a lot to do…

Path of BruinHow odd to be awakened this morning by my husband calling from the newsroom to tell me to keep the dog, cats and kids indoors. A bear had been sighted in our town. A big, black bear. Apparently early this morning the bear was seen not far from our house, rambled around the…

I loved my mom very much, she was supportive and always believed that I could do whatever I wanted to do. But she had a relatively happy childhood as far as kids stuff goes. She was raised in rural WV, her family was pretty well known and – from what I can tell – she…

Minnesota seems like a wonderful dream now, I’m so firmly back in the thick of life here in SO. However, along Ann’s line of thinking, I brought home several small neighborhood papers and have been reading voraciously online about neighborhood politics, schools, etc., in St. Paul and Minneapolis. It seems like similar issues that we’re…

I have yet to unpack, but it usually takes me a good day or two to settle into the putting-away-of-the-clothing. My flight arrived a bit early, so I had time to go down and get my luggage, meet Gerry, and rush over to our friend’s house (where the kids were to get off the bus…

I’m ready to hit the road – my flights in a little over 2 hours, I’m 20 minutes from the airport so I’m enjoying my last few minutes of cable on this trip by watching The Dark Horse, an old Bette Davis movie on TCM – some unlikely story about an idiot who’s elected to…

CREATIVE FIBERSTomorrow I’ll write about Creative Fibers – where I taught a warm and loving class last night. It was low-key, but everyone in the class was so dear, I felt as though I were with a group of friends I’d known for years! I’m teaching there tonight – after I spend the day in…