Cooperative Press (the home of my Defargy Books) has released the latest Knit Edge magazine, curated by Shannon Okey and compiled and edited by the incomparable Elizabeth Green Musselman. I’ll be chatting this up more on the next CraftLit, but OH MY GOODNESS is there a lot of really nifty niftiness in this next issue! Allow me to preempt a bit: Guernsey mitts boys podcasts socks and more More MORE! If you haven’t taken a gander,...

I wept happy tears after watching and reading the text under the video. I love flash mobs that are full of love.

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).

I know it must seem odd to have me post my reactions to  the most recent Atlantic Monthly’s article about the oddities of anesthesia, but most of my readers are women and we often get a smile and a nod at doctor’s offices. I have on this topic, anyway. I thought forewarned=armed=safe, so… here. Enjoy.  * * * When I was younger (and my hair was less inclined toward greying), if I were to go out into the sun for any length of...

Having spent every day since December 18th, 2012 on my back in bed (at least for some significant portion of each day) due to flu–>pneumonia, I thought it might be prudent of me to share what I learned with you since the flu seems to be doing the tango with the Eastern Seaboard. Please feel free–feel encouraged, actually—to share your own insights, tips, and tricks below. The more useful this page becomes… well… the...

Disclaimers first: I loved Les Mis when I saw it in London in 1987. I have owned the soundtrack since then. Yes, I do think Colm Wilkinson is the yardstick by which every Jean Valjean should be measured. I’ve only just started reading the book (I’m up to where Valjean is running to get young Cosette–that would be about 70,000 pages in). I majored in theatre. I love theatre. I love theatre tricks. I love theatricality. I even...