July 17, 2010
I love Michigan. I love living here for many reasons:
The weather is fine for knitting much of the year,
Snow lining tree branches is gloriously beautiful,
Spring ephemerals and flowering trees are a miracle after ice and sleet,
Fall is crimson, fiery orange, and golden leaves, enjoyed in crisp sunshine and then tossed by moody winds, and
Summer is [...]
June 20, 2010
Happy Father’s Day.
In May, my husband and I went to the Rock Shoppe in Plymouth, Michigan to find some stones for the edging of the pond in the back yard. It was a sunny spring day and we were wandering the extensive grounds looking for just the right thing – kind of greenish slate tiles. [...]
May 29, 2010
I just finished Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front. It’s at least in part an eco-survivalist guide to finding your way in peak oil, climate change, and the forecasted hard times that will come from energy crisis. I don’t agree with it entirely, I have to say that I’m not as doom-and-gloom [...]
May 9, 2010
Things have been tense, and when they’re tense I’m drawn inward, away from the stress and complexity of other people.
I feel like every where I turn I am hearing someone talk about writing – friends are turning towards writing books, I’m picking up books published by friends, a quick trip in my car gives me [...]
May 2, 2010
I started to wonder what all of that knitting was doing for me. What I was expressing or replacing by knitting.
April 25, 2010
I’m pretty much unable to draw, though I doodle a lot when I’m thinking. Photography has been my visual outlet, and I’ve long loved taking photographs and sharing photographs with friends and family.
It took me a long time to give up my film camera, but when I converted to digital, it was permanent and now [...]
November 29, 2009
We moved into a new place in August. For a while there we were almost camping because we had the kitchen ripped out…it didn’t feel exceptionally homey.
Our fabulous Ann Arbor construction crew gave us a working kitchen in our bump out just before Thanksgiving. We moved our plates, spices, glasses, and cookware into the kitchen [...]
August 29, 2009
We’ve had a few houseguests recently, which is odd considering we just moved and we have ripped out our kitchen so we don’t really have the infrastructure for houseguests. We’ve been taking our guests to local eateries, including Zingerman’s Roadhouse.
The other night, I ordered a Classic Martini at Zingerman’s Roadhouse. It’s one of several “classic [...]
August 2, 2009
I am still under the influence of Arianne Cohen’s The Tall Book. In keeping with the tall theme, I am mulling over her notes on body differences. In one section, she noted a few differences in tempo (just takes longer to sweep my hands from my sides to above my head given my hands travel [...]
August 1, 2009
I’m on vacation. And I read The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life on High by Arianne Cohen today. Just sat down and read it, cover to cover, with a break for a fishing trip and dinner. Very pleasurable. I read sections aloud to my husband, to explain why I was laughing out loud. I [...]
not particularly objective musings on odds and ends – Dunrie Greiling, Ann Arbor, MI 48105