As you may know, many things are afoot in Mama O Knits too Much-land—the book of knitting patterns coming out from Cooperative Press in February 2011, the online tutoring site, more and better patterns for sale, blog hops for the release of the new book, and a couple of things I can’t talk about yet. So while I’m sitting here in a cold, dark room (wearing my Cratchettes), wishing I were knitting but looking at the computer screen...

It is certainly possible you haven’t heard of Dr. Who. Is it also possible you heard of, watched, but didn’t understand the finer points of the show. I think Craig Ferguson will clear this all up for you. YouTube – Craig Ferguson – The lost “Dr. Who” cold open.. And more–this has now made me like Matt Smith. I am satisfied.

What can you do living gluten-free when it comes to holidays. A lot, actually. I’ll share my stunning success at Thanksgiving Stuffing shortly, but there’s a more dire topic at hand: Jelly Donuts! Even if you don’t celebrate the festival of lights, you probably know that Chanukah is a celebration surrounded by a puddle of oil—symbolic oil and cooking oil. Symbolically, historically, there was only enough clean oil left...

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Chanukah on Christmas Avenue: Raising a Jewish family in Winterhaven. If you don’t live in Tucson, you don’t know Winterhaven. This is a smallish neighborhood—in the middle of the Tucson desert—that looks like Iowa. It sports quiet streets, culs de sac, trees, grass, and crazy electric bills every Christmas season. For two weeks each year, the place shuts down the streets and allows walk-through traffic, horse carriage...

I’m not partial to hot buttered rum. Not because I’m a tea-totaler or anything like that, but because of a very specific and unfortunate accident that included the holiday season of 1978, my best friend Kerry, an unsupervised afternoon, and her mother’s fresh, double-batch of rub ball dough. I don’t want to get into details, but lets just leave it by saying that the smell of rum continues to make me turn a lovely shade...