…and her wild band of assorted musings.
I sew for two reasons: 1) to give myself a brain break from having to think about all the things I tend to think about when I'm not sewing and 2) to make stuff I could probably not otherwise justify purchasing. Or just to prove I can (okay, three reasons). That's how me making purses started. In September? …
I almost threw this out, unseen. It was on the reverse side of a worksheet, the side that hadn't been set apart as being for something. One minute I am in rote Mom mode, flipping through, piling and preparing to dispense of the day's stack of first grader school papers, bundle readied for the garbage--and …
Scrabbling around in my bedside table drawer, I found this card. This wish. It made my throat clench up to read it, in the weird way that wanting to cry and not giving into it rewards us with a bit more pain. A bit more reason to cry, actually. Sarah has been my friend since our …
When I was in high school, I used to spend hours with my headphones on, or in front of my boom box, starting and stopping songs so I could scrawl out the lyrics. Not surprisingly, the songs I'd choose to write out were ones I'd designated as particularly meaningful--they were songs I wanted to possess in …
I count on the end of each year as my moment for self-reconciliation, my opportunity to think through the year gone by and decide what it all means. Me, the bookkeeper AND the books, settled in at an imagined table to see how I did this year, my life a one-woman business of sorts. And I …
Hey Think Kit Day Three! You want a funny story from this year? How about NO! I have no funny stories to tell, or if I do have funny stories, my telling them here will sap them like kryptonite does Mr. Superman. Instead I give you this: MY FAVORITE PARODY/HUMOR TWITTER ACCOUNTS!!!!!!! If someone said, …
Think Kit, Day Two! Still excited. Still blogging on not my computer. Today's prompt is straightforward: I am to tell you about a time this year that I changed my mind. Possible problem: I don't change my mind! (Not publicly. Not in a way I'd ever admit to. I'd find a way to back into …
Friends, hello! I feel like I'm sending out this post into the world from some strange, faraway place--your blogging foreign correspondent--and I don't know why I should even mention that, because every internet thing is more or less 'unstuck'--not really moored to anything but this blog and hey, you may only ever encounter just this …
Jackie Lutzke 