Pick Up the Phone

Just when I thought my biggest worry today would be the aches and pains from yesterday’s cleaning, there’s more news from the Senate’s health care struggles. 
A majority of Americans support having a public plan available for folks who cannot get health care insurance through their employers and who cannot afford to buy it on the [...]

Drive-By Blogging

A quick “Hurray” for the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor.  Sandra Day O’Conner was the graduation speaker at my medical school graduation (Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, 1982).  It was exciting even though I wasn’t a huge fan.  Every indication of our country dragging its tired political butt into the next century is to be celebrated.  [...]

Gettin’ On the Grid

My computer works again, I’m a fiend!  I opened it and played two rounds of Scrabble, and there will be lots more of that before the day is done. 
I’m getting ready for future craft market days.  I made two hats, one in a child’s size in lovely Auraucania Yarns Atacama.  It is hand-dyed, supersoft 100% [...]

Celebration: My First Market Day

I am happy today.  Not just my usual happy, but specifically happy over the outcome of my first foray into craft fair/market sales for this year.  Yesterday, after many days of prep, Dayna and I took our wares to the Chattanooga Market (http://chattanoogamarket.com), set up our displays, and sold stuff.  Despite a setup that was [...]

Clearing it Out and Taking it Off

It’s another cloudy morning, and I don’t mind.  I have “stuff” to do, and the weather doesn’t matter.  I have bright stuff in my mind, and the overcast sky can’t dampen that.
Yesterday, an organization that handles all sorts of issues relating to homelessness in Chattanooga sent their crew to pick up furniture that I’m donating.  It cleared my [...]

Monday Morning, da da, da da da-ta

A few morning thoughts:
It’s not raining.  Yayyyy.  That will change later in the day, but I am happy for a respite from the extremely wet weather we’ve endured lately.  I can hear birds singing outside my bedroom, probably the robin and her family.  She has been in residence, frequently bumping my windows, for a couple [...]

Single Payer Not Allowed at the Senate Table

I’m having some peaceful moments, knitting a baby blanket, watching Friday night television.  I slowly read email while I do this.  There’s a conversation going on among Etsy fiber arts street team members, a very supportive group of women responding to one member’s plea for a shoulder to cry on.  I delete some advertising emails, [...]

Operation Yarn Basket

People lose their minds when they go house shopping.  For some reason, their spacial logic goes awry as soon as they step into a prospective house.  They see a shelf full of yarn and they spaz out, unable to picture their fine French Provincial furniture and six foot television in the room.  Maybe all the [...]

Mother, May I…?

It’s May first, and in honor of the day, and of the coming Mother’s Day, I’m constructing a “Mother, May I…?” list. 
Mother, may I please have a rapid return to better knee function?  I know I did a stupid thing and ran a few yards on them, and I know I put them into weight-bearing [...]