Author: Annie

So I’m throwing it out, and maybe the wind will blow something back. Burn, baby, burn!

I just signed up for a day long class at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis on Bohus Knitting, taught by Susanna Hanson. I’m SO excited – I don’t get to take as many classes as I’d like – and this will be not only fun, but a chance to expand my teaching skills by…

After 9/11 I found myself pondering death all of the time – death, dying, the end, finis, mort. You know it’s serious when I start pondering en Francaise. At the time I was reading a wonderful book, The Mummies of Urumchi, which somehow calmed the ‘death fear’ that had crept into every pore. It was…

SDT = So Damned Tired. The weekend was lovely – wonderful – and I hope it was restful for the students! I know I had a good time, but I was also feeling very responsible for folks, a responsibility I wasn’t entirely prepared to take on as I drove over to Spicer. On the way…

It’s been SUCH a busy week – so much has happened since I last wrote – But it’s been a hard week because I’m finding myself getting lost in my recent sorrows more than I’d thought I would. I think that just comes with the territory. Jan’s recent passing seems to act like a magnifying…

Supposedly there are ghosts at the Slater Mill, but I didn’t see any. I’d kind of like to see one (yeah, right, that’s my story NOW, ask me after I’ve had an encounter with an envoy from the other world) but I was too tired after the event this evening to take the Ghost Tour….

I feel oddly adrift, maybe it’s the overcast weather (which ironically makes the foliage here in New England even more spectacular and brilliant!) or maybe it’s just staying in a different hotel every night, but I feel not quite myself. I miss Gerry and the kids, and I really miss St. Paul! Boston was lovely…

I’m here in Boston, my flight got in this afternoon and I’m staying in the area in preparation for my classes tomorrow. I’m very excited about them – a new working model for me – sponsoring and covering all the expenses of the class myself, but keeping the $$, too. On this trip it’s working…

Up to the minute election results! (so much for no politics on a knitting blog…) Gerry and I voted already, we’re watching Obama vote right now in Chicago (no wonder the lines are long, what is he – moving in?) But I cannot get two people out of my mind who should be here. You…

I like Al Franken, I hope he wins. He’s smart, hard working, he’s been responsible for a great deal of the Democratic Revival of the past 6 years (his books and radio show), and I think he’s just the right person to pierce the hypocrisy of DC with sharp pointy wit. He’s running against the…