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What I Learned on My Summer Vacation
I took rather more of a break from blogging over the summer than I meant to. I definitely wanted things to slow down — needed to, after five months of hard production — but I didn’t expect to go down...
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Start Your Month Right with a Check-in Checklist
A few months ago I read a book called The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande. It’s mostly about how doctors and pilots use checklists in their daily work to make things safer and to know what to do...
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Waiting for Fall in the South
It starts around the weekend of the first college football game. We want to call it fall, but that’s in August so everyone knows it’s not really fall. Then there’s Labor Day, when the rest of the...
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How to Take Care of an Older Cat
Mr. Bean has been our cat for almost 15 years. We got him and his brother, Louis, the year we got married. They were together for 13 years, and were our furry kids for a long time before we had a human...
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A To-Do List for Where We Are Now
It’s probably no surprise that I’m disappointed by the election results and have been feeling, like so many others, that I should have done more to prevent what has happened and what is going to be...
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I Wasn’t Going to Write about Today
The girl is quite literally an Obama baby. I had a doctor’s appointment — after which I’d given myself permission to start trying to get pregnant — the day before his first inauguration. We talked...
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How to Survive a Creative Slump
This year has been hard for me creatively. I just haven’t felt like making anything. I’ve been doing a little knitting here and there, maybe a tiny bit of sewing and some mending. But I haven’t felt...
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The Short Film about Creativity and Life Every Parent Needs to See
A super-short film about creativity has inspired me, and it will inspire you, too. This is so good. If you need to cry today, or have a transcendent experience, hang with me for a few. The short film...
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On Seeing Hamilton and the Value of Experience
Affiliate links included for your convenience. I’ve been on a Hamilton fast all month. The cast recording and the mixtape. It’s been really hard for a person who listened to one or the other most weeks...
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The Life-Changing Magic of Being a Dabbler
Being a dabbler is a great way to learn new things. It’s probably the way we’re all supposed to be. Affiliate links included for your convenience. I spent the weekend with a few of my favorite kick-ass...
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One Little Word for 2019
I started writing this post about my One Little Word about a month ago, but I never finished. After looking back at the progress I made in January I figured it was still worth sharing. It’s never too...
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Rereading a Knitting Classic: Knitting without Tears
Many, many years ago, when I was just starting to write about knitting as part of my job, I picked up a copy of Knitting without Tears by Elizabeth Zimmermann. I don’t even know what led me to it....
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A Pep Talk for Creatives Who Just Don’t Want to
I use my morning pages as a conversation with myself pretty often, and this pep talk for creatives came out in pieces over days. It’s what I needed to tell myself; maybe you need someone to tell it to...
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A Little Word for 2022: Release
I’ve been coming up with a little word for each year since 2013 (though I haven’t always written about it). I don’t always do a great job of keeping the word on my mind through the year — last year’s...
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