Jenny, who is skeptical of much, wanted a cozy. I have always been skeptical about cozies, but she made a strong case for why a large french press, particularly, could profit from a woolen cover. Consider: the smaller press makes a little bit more than a cup, fit for one person, and generally you pour […]
Merino/tencel 50/50 came in the mail from Zen String, beautifully dyed, braided, packaged, with a postcard I used to record my sceneage from the Twelfth Night party.
But it is a bitch, bitch, bitch to spin on my poor Louet S17, at least to the fineness I, full of hubris, attempted. I have spun half of […]
You need these for every foolish paper, to put in the footnotes, so that you don’t have to type out “Aristotle De Anima” or “Plato Republic” every time; or rather, you’re not supposed to type them out every time, lest people laugh at you if you do. And they’re considered the standard, and you’re not […]
At CUA, there used to be a stop sign by the library that some clever person had written ‘Eros’ on. I could never tell if they meant the pun on the first level, as a kind of commentary on all the short skirts and lascivious expressions of the undergrads, or on the second, ironically alluding […]
Instead of finishing people’s presents, I have had a strange desire to needlepoint, which of course I have followed.
I have been of course knitting a great many things for a while now, but this holiday I wanted to embellish, to make an image. No practicality this time, merely something to be seen. Hence my […]
When I got married, someone gave me a sheet. I’m not sure who it was, and it’s probably for the best that I don’t remember. This is because it was a very nice king size flat sheet, without any of the other trappings that make a sheet useful, like a fitted sheet, for instance. But […]