Happy Easter, everyone! The daffodils are putting on a show. They don’t last, as A. E. Housman reminds us in The Lent Lily, which makes them all the more precious. I don’t expect these chocolates to last either, though I myself am guiltless in the matter. Sometime in the mid-90’s, I lost my taste for […]
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Scala
My puppy Dulcinea absolutely loves this Scala shawl. It’s the tempting tassels, of course. Mithril also likes the dangling ribbon yarn. He had fun helping me make it. So, yeah. I’ve worn this shawl maybe twice in two years. But that will change soon. I’m taking the shawl on vacation with me, where the furry […]
Fuzzy Valentine
It’s Valentine’s Day. So where’s my snow? I took Dulcinea to the dog park, and she kicked up great clouds of dust. I ought to know better, but I’m still shocked by how warm it is on the Front Range. Tiny shoots of crocus and Dutch Iris are springing up in my garden. (Don’t they […]
Cabled Gauntlets
When you first learn to knit, you don’t know what kind of a knitter you are. You’re tempted by quick knits, big metal needles. You rhapsodize over novelty yarns. And then you grow up a little. You find out that your favorite yarns occupy a specific range between Aran and sock yarn. You realize you […]
Gabriel
Eighteen years is a long time for a pet to live in this world, even a cat with a purr as loud as a chainsaw. Gabriel kept purring until the very end.
Wildcats in Larkspur
My cats are three of the most wretchedly spoiled, badly trained, and inappropriately worshiped creatures in Colorado. I’ve always assumed that their tendency to ignore my wishes is hard-wired into their DNA, not my fault as a trainer. So I’m a bit disgusted to learn (courtesy of the Endangered Cats exhibit at the Larkspur Renaissance […]
Cold Comfort Cats
The windchill is -35F in Wisconsin, and my indoor cats have lost all desire to sneak outside. Gabriel, the snaggle-toothed sixteen-year-old, ventured out to the country doctors last week and came home with a bottle of thyroid medication. That was enough cold weather for him. Snowy, his glamorous companion, has taken over the sunny heating […]
The Rabbi’s Cat 2
At last I have the sequel to Joann Sfar’s graphic novel, The Rabbi’s Cat. In his sequel, Sfar once again places his readers and his talking cat in the heart of the Jewish community in 1930’s Algeria. The cast of characters includes the rabbi, his footloose and mystical cousin Malka of the Lions, a suspected […]