Author: Annie

I’m saying goodbye to two old friends today – friends that have served me well for 15 years, and which saw me from grad school through single-woman-in-Brooklyn-dom and on into marriage and 2 kids. Today I say farewell to Yellow Ikea Chair and Unique Upholstered Loveseat Sofabed. Folks are coming to get them before noon,…

Yesterday was day 1 of the two day festival that is known as Gerry’s Day 100 Checkup. It’s when we return to the Mayo for testing and a doctor visit to follow up 100 days after his stem cell transplant. And it was a huge frustration. Thank god I had my new tiny rubber chicken…

Life has escaped us this year in many ways. We’re very focused on the day to day, and suddenly we look up and it’s Hannukah! They keep moving that darned holiday… So, in celebration of the holiday, I made our family’s traditional (and rather self conciously Martha Stewart-esque) Gelt Cookie. I used the Nut Crescent…

Hannah pauses between flights I was the designated taker-of-kids-to-the-sledding-hill parent this time, so I brought Atticus along just for good measure. The kids had a BLAST on the hill back behind the Highland Park Rec Center, and I ended up by sledding down the hill myself. Atticus had an amazing run in a desolate area…

It’s a snowy Minnesota weekend – it’s long in coming. A weekend that’s good for cups of hot tea or chocolate, sledding and knitting. I’ll take the latter, thank you very much… November is usually a much snowier month (according to the records and the locals; we have nothing to judge it by personally.) There’s…

And who has time?I’m finishing up a few items for yarn companies – late, or barely late – but enjoying the knitting immensely. Lorna’s Laces has a new organic wool that I’ve been fiddling with, it knits up like a dream and is very forgiving, creates a nice fabric. I’m working up two items in…

For an incredibly cute photo op –I’ve put my Flip Books on sale until Dec 31st. The response has been pretty amazing – I’m glad I’m home for a while! Once again, I’ll become best friends with my local PO workers – I guess I should give each of them a set, too! If you…

I met Gerry during the period in my life when I wasn’t doing much knitting. Okay, I wasn’t doing ANY knitting. As a matter of fact, for about 10 years I didn’t knit. And, having put aside something I loved so much, I appreciated it in a much deeper way after my hiatus. The prodigal…

But first, a word about Edmonton… When I think about what kind of person I am – and we all do that – I feel that I’m someone folks don’t considering dispassionately. Maybe it’s because I can be rather passionate in my own likes and dislikes (and try every day to tone that down so…

Home. I love home so much. When I was twelve years old my dad lost his business – he’d started a company to create the first single place hovercraft in the US, and had signed a personal note which – when called in – pretty much wiped us out. My dad was a genius, but…