Mostly, I make felted bags, but lately I am working on an afghan for my daughter's family. It's made of alpaca and bamboo. Alpaca is very warm and bamboo has some antibacterial properties.

Here's a picture of the afghan... 

I still have to weave in… Read full post »

...but it has nothing to do with the ads. Nor am I flouncing.

Briefly, I have a birthday coming up and have been re-evaluating how I spend my time... costs/benefits, that sort of thing. Who knows how many more birthdays I'm going to have... passing the mid-fifties makes that issue more… Read full post »

A few months ago, I posted some poems-- works in progress-- that were inspired by watching repeatedly some of the much older versions of films and mini-series based on Jane Austen's novels. I have since removed those versions of the poems, but have… Read full post »

Please click on the picture and take yourself to a fashionable slide show at the Christian Science Monitor, featuring fourteen colourful and fascinating feats of hatdom.

Surely, something that has been worn at Ascot may be splendid enough to please our beloved Joan... as wel… Read full post »

Well, I did have some other things in the works, but I guess on June 26th, I'll be posting something about Dan Froomkin. I've been a fan of his for quite awhile now.

The best blogger at what metro DC could once properly call a newspaper has been let go.… Read full post »

My BF sent me this link because he thought I might wish to do a blog post about it. I'm grateful that he also mentioned it to me, or I never would have seen it, since that particular email, for some unknown reason, ended up in my junk/spam folder.

Is… Read full post »

In his July letter, the estimable Graydon Carter, Editor of Vanity Fair since 1992, has some advice for newspapers:

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[...]Who has the patience to hear endless whining about someone else’s misfortune when your own fortunes are rickety? This is not to say that the hea… Read full post »

This morning, I found a request in my in-box, asking me to post something about Mercury Retrograde, since we are already into a retrograde phase by a week or more.

There were many much more interesting (and aesthetically pleasing)  images of retrograde motion for the superior plane… Read full post »

That turkey comment is how Ann Pettifor describes bankers and their lobbyists  in her lastest post at The Huffington Post: Defeating Homeowners: A Phyrric Victory for Bankers. I might have said it's just one more example of emphasizing short-term gains over the long view of prosperity for everyo… Read full post »

I just read this story by Ryan Grim on HuffPost, "In Their Own Words: Why Dem Senators Screwed Homeowners"...  and it was the final straw. I've been seriously considering changing my party registration from Democratic to Independent, just to make a point, but I was going to do it manually. Howev… Read full post »

Jason Linkins, of the Huffington Post, writes about a study on processing humor, entitled "The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report." The study  supplies quantitative data on (ideologically-biased) reactions to "The Colbert Repo… Read full post »

Maybe NSFW... it all depends on where you work.

 From Nico Pitney at The Huffington Post, quoting Shep Smith:

"We are America, we don't torture! And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train! This government is of, by, and for the people -- that… Read full post »