Twice in recent days, I have seen little fluttery creatures tooling around the house. Even after capturing, and yes, killing the little bug...

8:00 am. A few weeks ago it would have been pitch black at this hour. Despite the height of the snowbanks, things are changing. It is just...

Lucy was asking me if I had any music on my computer that she could use for aerobics, which apparently she does in gym class at school. Wit...

My article for the artist networking site, Artbistro.com , is up. It is titled, Selling Your Work Online: The Etsy Option and features inp...

I want to say I have been making lace my beee-atch but that is so awful and misogynist that I can't quite bring myself to do it. Except...

Dan comes from a family of planners. Around Christmas, they start planning the summer vacation. Around breakfast, they start planning for ...

Ignoring the fact that they are saturated in bad karma and that they have left an absurdly large carbon footprint, I bought some cut flowers...

A dear friend of mine is an expert knitter - a professional designer who makes magic (and her living) with her needles. She sent me some p...

On Wednesday, Finn and I got out skiing, despite the wild weather. We were almost completely alone out on the trails. The place where we s...

My parents were about ten years older than most of the parents of my friends in high school. They were children during the Great Depression...

Oh my, has winter gone on so long that we are reduced to cutting each other's hair off? It would seem so. Yesterday, Lucy asked me to ...

Please take a moment to read this post from James Ford over at Monkey Mind . All I can say is that the people of Providence, RI, are pretty...

Sunday is yoga day. In addition to my own practice, I teach two classes. It all adds up to about 4 - 4.5 hrs of yoga, that is to say: doin...

The weather gods smiled upon us. Both of our trips across the island were done in lovely weather, with clear roads. It was a little crazy ...

Last week, I was casting about for something easy and portable to knit. I found a skein of sock yarn that I purchased in St. John's on ...

A couple of posts ago, I mentioned that there has been a bit of a hoo-ha in the yoga world about an article in the NY Times about a woman wh...

Weeds have many metaphorical meanings. "In the weeds" in the restaurant business means you are behind on your orders. Weeds are ...

One promise I made to myself when I started this blog was that I would not succumb to talking about the weather. I mean, ho-hum. I might a...

On Sunday, we had about two feet of snow fall. The weather report persisted in telling us that it was 5 - 10 cm, but the sky said different...