Month: February 2013

01 Feb 2013

Episode 125 – My own private Oregon

In this episode: A travel and teaching round up but, mostly, I have just missed talking with you. Visiting one’s old home town as a tourist is bitter sweet. I’ve been hanging out in the West Hills, shopping at Stroheckers, walking at Council Crest, and shopping as if there is no tomorrow. Oregon has funny…

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17 Feb 2012

Episode 112: Becoming

In this episode: When Truman speaks you have to listen. (It’s the tail chasing that does it.) Dishing up a side of economics with your science before running full tilt towards the cliff where 1410 knitters have gone before. (This is all Amy’s fault.) And, apparently, the reason I took all those acting classes in…

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10 Feb 2012

Episode 111: Ubiquitous

In this episode: Grownup heads and baby toesies. In other words, hats and booties. Bwitain, bwitain bwitain and its arts institutions. The Grand Tour, the grant and the great matter. Not just “For Mother”, download the free Knitting Apron Pattern. I completed something! rejoice with me. The Chevron Beanie, by Woolly Wormhead, hails from her…

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03 Feb 2012

More light.

Goethe’s final words were, reportedly, “More light.” During the coldest week we’ve had all winter the sun has given us just that. More light. Old Sol has been occupying that particular angle in the sky that turns the sea into a gilt mirror at the end of the valley; that illuminates the beauty of west…

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15 Feb 2011

Episode 98: The Phantom Menace

In this episode I celebrate a new member of the tribe, weep for tools and projects that were never intended as dog snacks, catch up on a month’s worth of knitting, air the stash, and dive into knitting bags.

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