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Knitting Nightmares

Finding Hope in a Pile of Ripped-Out Yarn

Ripping out yet another failed attempt at a knitted scarf, I’m cursing my inability to follow a simple knitting pattern—one that “real knitters” on the Ravelry site called “simple and straightforward.” Liars. I haven’t knitted in several

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May News: Memorial Day thoughts on Loving Earth .. ❤🌍

MEMORIAL DAY

Looking ahead to the long weekend, with no holiday travel planned, my mind turns to the never-ending list of chores. After all the rains this past winter (and the brush clearance notice in the mail), weeding, weeding and weeding number 1, 2 and 3 on the list. Not that there aren’t plenty of other tasks—when you live in a 96-year-old house, there’s always a long list—but none carry the threat of a $700+ fine if I don’t complete

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March Mad-Ness

"Cheryl Leutjen Writes"

I know “March Madness” refers to college basketball, but I’ve decided to co-opt the term. It’s high time, in my own opinion,  we had a month to honor our own various forms of madness, be it fury at the political scene or a pathological inability to pass up a cheese plate. 

And it seems like there’s more and more

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