Working out the pattern for Ottawa. I use a program called Stitch Painter, which I quite like. Is it totally cheesy that I used a maple le...

One benefit of having a Zen practice, not often mentioned in books, is that when one needs to be up early and knitting, it is possible to do...

This is my big work week. The week in which I play Dan. That is to say, I get up and head out in the morning and don't come back until...

Yes, there is much pain, suffering and cruelty in the world. But there is much love too. Right now, I love this . The woman in the middle k...

Unlike many, I love the dark days of winter. There is a kind of enforced hush that falls across the landscape, even here in noisy, bright N...

You know what they say, right? Friday night I started to feel increasingly worse and worse - my nose was running non-stop and my throat was...

We passed a major milestone over here. For the first time, Finn and Lucy took the subway on their own. Considering I only just started all...

Things have been hectic around here, what with holidays and deadlines and such. I don't have any photographs, which are usually the dri...

Millimeter by millimeter, we get closer to actually using the giant loom that is taking up valuable real estate in our living room.

Here is the start of the Ontario piece. I am creating pieces that go with the porcelain pieces I made for each place we visited. Then the ...

Every evening for the past month or maybe longer, the phone has rung and the caller ID says (literally, the thing talks in weird robotic fem...

For all the joriki I may have gathered over the past couple of weeks, I am still finding hard to really dig into what needs to be done in or...

Over at Dalai Grandma , the author of that blog writes about her experiences studying with Zen teachers who are male and how that can and so...

While still feeling the energy and focus of my post-sesshin buzz, I made my way to the studio yesterday for a couple of hours as part of a t...

Have you ever felt that you have been scaling the mountain, sweating and working harder than you ever have in your life, only to have the fo...

This coming week I will be up at the Zen Mountain Monastery for sesshin. I will be back next Sunday afternoon. See you then!

Some may know that my brother-in-law, David (yes, that David with the new Ph.D and new sweater) and I are working, very slowly, on a film ab...

I have put my money where my mouth is and booked an RV for five weeks in late May/June 2010. We will head north and then west and finish th...

While Gillams may be under snow about now, here in Sunnyside we had a glorious day of sunshine and warmth. I took advantage of this to harv...

Some of the results of the dyeing workshop: Black walnut on merino yarn, I used yarn that had been mordanted with alum but I know I didn...