To many knitters Elizabeth Zimmermann is our greatest Knitting Godmother—akin to, I submit, a knitting goddess, who gave to us discernible knitting lessons, decipherable patterns, and the license to knit as we please. My EZ collection was made complete this morning…

On a whim The Partner and I stopped by the city library after dinner this evening and lo! they were having a book sale! A $1-A-BAG book sale. I love local book sales as university professors donate their books, which means you can often find great academic nonfiction, which the nerd/geek in me [...]

Banned Books Week is September 29 through October 6. You can find an online catalogue of banned and challenged books at The Forbidden Library, either arranged by title or by author.
Or you can head over to your own public library. My city library has a display devoting several shelves to banned and challenged [...]

One of my favorite authors, Tim Sandlin, has a blog.
Old age is a good time to get to know your parents. They’re stuck in a hospital bed and you’re stuck in a vinyl chair next to the hospital bed and there’s nothing much to do but reach closure with the past. Nobody feels judgmental, at [...]

One of the seven books I’m reading right now is Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, edited by Jaggar and Bordo (1989). If you like feminist theory, cultural studies, and philosophy, this text is for you. I’m juggling other books at the same time, so I’m only near the end of the [...]