It’s catching. If you have a tweenage boy in your household, please feel free to share Total Randomness—the new blog by my older son. Goofy art and text and weekly IT (Insane, but True).

My younger son has found himself enamored of Shakespeare (Midsummer is a fave, followed closely by Branaugh’s Henry V). A high point of his ninth birthday was meeting Ehren Ziegler of ChopBard podcast during the Birthday Weekend Trip To NYC Blowout. But last week he woke up, looked out the window at the fresh (surprise!) snow and said, “It makes me feel all Shakespeare-y.” Well what else is a former English teacher to do? I...

‘Tis the season, after all, so I’ve been knitting zombies. Not just ANY zombies–MochimochiLand zombies. I discovered these little dudes at Alissa’s Knitting Fairy shop in Arlington, Texas (AWESOME store. Go!) and we spent an evening giggling over the ones she’d made and then finally caving in and getting the little zombie kit. The kit comes with everything. Little thread-bobbins of yarn, a bag of stuffing,...

Remily Knits Her latest New Pattern Release: Eye of the Storm « Remily Knits continues to blow my mind. Please go look at her patterns and tutorials. Wow!

I could run out on the street and grab a stranger and give them a big ol’ hug, I’m so happy happy happy. I just finished the Super Secret Shrug thing for Defarge-3 (Defarge Does Shakespeare, for those keeping score at home)! Yes, Defarge 2 has yet to come out (though it’s in pre-orders) but we’re already hard at work on the next book in the series. We’re also still accepting submissions for Defarge Does Chaucer and...

After my Close Encounters with ugly people, I got to go re-visit Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Thing 2 had an ear appointment down at UVa, and that, my friends, is a two-and-a-half-hour drive for us. Thing 1 was dragged along. Life was made tolerable by home-made (two of them gluten free) Egg McMuffins. We toodled down to meet the wonderful doctor who told us that, indeed, Thing 2’s ear canal skin graft had mucosalized (how, you may...