It’s already midwinter, but I’ve only now completed my autumn shawl for Ysolda’s 2015 Shawl Club. This particular club installment is called Malton Oolite, named for a sedimentary rock formed in England during the Jurassic era, characterized by egg-shaped ooliths. But as you can see, there’s nothing egg-shaped about the design Dulcinea is modeling, since […]
Author Archives: Jonna
Angels of Estes Park
As the new year rolled in, I went out looking for angels, but divine messengers were thin on the ground, so I had to make one myself. In case you were wondering, it’s not particularly easy to make a symmetrical snow angel while wearing snowshoes and a puffy snowsuit. But somehow I managed. The winter […]
Baker Street and Beyond
This weekend was all about Sherlock Holmes. First, we went to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to take in The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes. The exhibit had original manuscripts by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, lots of Holmes-related ephemera, magnificent props creating Holmes’ Victorian study, and a very cool interactive mystery, which actually […]
Featherweights and Friction
Christmas came early for me this year, in the form of a 1930’s Singer Featherweight, beautifully embellished with gilded scrolls. Gorgeous, no? I seriously squealed like a schoolgirl when I saw it. But the best thing about this gift is not its beauty, but its ability to reduce friction in my life. I love vintage, […]
Avalanche Ranch
Tucked away in a narrow mountain valley is a rustic resort called Avalanche Ranch. At some point in October, we realized we needed to step away from our computers and phones. So away we went to Avalanche Ranch for a weekend retreat. And even though I became ill over the weekend (and ended up the […]
The Grand Rounds
Autumn’s on its way in, and I can tell I’m in a state of transition. After spending most of the summer traveling–first to Bolivia and then to Alaska–I returned home to the devastating loss of my friend Solveig, at which point everything in my life came to a sudden stop. I haven’t overcome my grief. […]
Holiday in Copacabana
Here’s one final post on my Bolivian holiday. After my sister finished performing her solo concerts in La Paz, we had just enough time for a short trip to Copacabana, a resort town on the shores of Lake Titicaca. So we gathered up the kids and hit the road. The main route to Copacabana winds […]
An Evening at Teatro Municipal
Shortly after I arrived in Bolivia this summer, I was lucky enough to hear my sister perform at Teatro Municipal, a grand old nineteenth-century theater in La Paz. Accompanied by the young musicians of Encuentro de Jovenes Músicos Bolivianos, she and her husband played the world premiere of Jordan Grigg’s “Concerto Semplice” for Two Violins. […]
