Actually, not so much God, but a guy who thought he was. In reality, he was Jordan Baker. He cut across three aisles of parking lot with nary a glance to the side and were it not for my brakes, he would now be paying for my funeral. I had a rare opportunity–rare for me when it comes to people like him–where I said, “you know, we were THAT close when you cut across without looking”. He smiled and said, “good thing...

…Chaucer! I mean—ah—let me start over. ahem ::Orson Welles-like voice::  Who isn’t afraid of Chaucer? Okay, Chaucer scholars probably aren’t and… ummmm… no one else. Right? Because it seems so old. And hard. And dry. And boring. And yet…NOT! I’ve been doing a little experiment over at CraftLit and I’m pretty excited about how it’s panning out. Other people seem to be pretty happy about it...

In my new role as the luckiest person EVER, I got to go to TNNA last weekend. One of the many nifty things was getting to go to Marly Bird’s marvelous dinner, sit with wonderfully winning people, see old friends, make new ones and—beyond my wildest dreams of avarice—score some free goodies. These things do not come without the hope of we lucky recipients spreading the word and so I will dutifully be testing and trying out the...

Knitters Outraged After U.S. Olympic Committee Squashes Knitting Olympics—and Disses Knitters. Oh you really MUST read this. I posted this on Facebook shortly ago with the note for non-knitters that: All of the patterns that the Olympic committee is picking on (yes, I understand trademark infringement, fair use, etc, read on…) are NOT designed by Casey. NO ONE is making money off of them.    These are patterns made up by Just...

* * *  Newsy bits * * * Cheddar! What’s a Cheddar, you ask? Cheddar is my new buddy. I’ve got two (well, the second is getting his tail this evening). It was time for CraftLit to have a mascot, enter… Cheddar, the CraftLit Critter (pattern)! or get it by Subscribing (i.e., committing to a monthly payment) to CraftLit Or Purchase a completed,  knitted Cheddar from  Penny  for $36 via  little acorn creations  (coming soon!) He...

A frightening number of friends of mine have gotten ill lately. We’re all generally of a certain age (post 35, shall we say…) and all getting oddly ill. Kind of out of the blue. To refresh–I had hand tremors for 2-1/2 years, the need for Prevacid for 1-1/2 years, then suddenly 9 weeks of migraine (not migraineS–one loooong migraine. No joke). My MOTHER (not a doctor) diagnosed the gluten problem. I’ve been gluten...