Enough with the weather. Enough droning on about my mobility challenges. I'm ready to set both aside and inaugurate a new series of posts, this one shifting attention back where I want it to be and away from a winter that’s keeping me inside yet again (I’ll stop myself there). But I digress. Last summer, … Continue reading Elastic Waist, but Make It Fashion
First, some clarification for my own sense of pride: although I haven't posted in a few days, I've decided that the weekend doesn't count for the purposes of my blogging streak. In other words, the streak lives on. (Yes, I've been brainwashed by that language-learning app. At least writing is marginally more productive than drilling … Continue reading An Interlude
It's the second afternoon of my post-storm snow-in, and I remain in good spirits. Indeed, my most pressing issue isn't boredom, depression, or ennui but rather having a packed schedule and an overly ambitious to-do list that's way too long to be realistic. I'm already significantly behind my entirely arbitrary schedule for the day, but … Continue reading Snow Diaries: Day Two
I'm starting off strong here and staying true to my word by making today's entry in the snow/prison diary in which I plan to document this current period of winter confinement. While I hope that this will be a two-day thing, I suspect it'll be a significantly longer-term project. Watch me curse myself weeks from … Continue reading Snow Diaries: Day One
[Please note that it's now the day of the snowstorm, and conditions have very much changed since I finished—and neglected to publish—this entry. Expect a full-on storm post soon; I'm considering trying for a daily entry until I'm able to resume some semblance of normal life, but no promises.] I write this in the short … Continue reading The Night Before the (Snow)storm
It seems trite to begin an end-of-December post with “I can’t believe it’s the end of December,” but it’s absolutely true. December flew by, as did November, and October, and September, and the summer and spring and, shockingly, winter (February’s Great Snow Confinement being the notable exception). 2025 is indeed a blur in the rearview … Continue reading 2025 in Review
Having radically accepted that it'll take even longer than anticipated to get to the post on becoming an old(er) person I foolishly claimed I'd finish and publish in a timely manner (I swear I need to tattoo "underpromise, overdeliver!" on my forearm), I'm opting to procrastinate with a palate-cleansing project recap. In my own defence—not … Continue reading Birthday Suit
This isn't a "reflections upon turning forty" post; that'll be the subject of a longer, more thoughtful, less slapdash piece I wasn't able to finish in time for my birthday itself, which was this past Sunday. As always, I had the best of intentions to have something polished and ready to go, but I was … Continue reading On the Button
Now that I'm feeling more confident in my skill set and and am more sure of myself in general—there's a bidirectional, synergistic relationship there that I've come to appreciate and will write about some other time—I'm taking the initial steps towards truly practising what I've been preaching for ages but have only half-managed to actually … Continue reading Toile-ing Away
I recently realized that I now associate seasons with sewing projects more than with the weather (although the two are, of course, intrinsically linked). It takes time to plan and execute a seasonal wardrobe, so my brain is usually a month or two ahead: the official start of summer, for example, was when I sewed … Continue reading From Linen to Wool
De Morbo Sacro: Life and/with Epilepsy 