January and February is a good time for comfort knitting. I knit a scarf from Shepherd's Wool  in a pattern called Danger . While I kn...

I happen to think I can learn about anything by finding the right book. Currently I am studying poetry. In the past, I collected and r...

All morning a fine dry powder of January snow has blown across my window.  The forecast is for one to two inches but I wonder if more will...

This year, Thanksgiving marks the end of a glorious autumn. Perhaps because southeast Nebraska had adequate rainfall in May and June and f...

About ten years ago, a friend, who I will call Mary, gave me this old sewing rocker. Rocking chairs without arms are called sewing rockers...

Several years ago, I worked in an old portable trailer outside a middle school. The drafty trailer was divided into two small rooms conn...

Weekend temperatures are predicted to range between 39 and 55 degrees. I plan to finish a few outdoors chores on these cooler days. Ho...