Recently  a friend of mine turned me on to an article in the NYTimes about cool, new (well, new to me) iPhone photo apps. One of the apps which I immediately downloaded is called Percolator which you see demonstrated here. You can vary the size of the “beans” and the “grind” to get a finer [...]

I’ve been stuck in my home office and chained to my laptop this week working on TPA #2. Sadly. For the uninitiated, the TPAs (Teacher Performance Assessments) are a series of tests that teacher candidates in the state of California must complete in order to become fully credentialed. It’s hard to explain the odious nature [...]

I’m heading up to Oregon this morning for a few days but before I leave, I want to wish you all a Happy Holiday season. Take care, stay safe and be merry.

I guess the holidays are over – at least for now. Ali and Kelsi headed back to Oregon this morning but not before I managed to finish one more hat. It’s based on the Black and Grey hat and it even matches Kelsi’s shirt. Pretty cool, eh? This one is smaller with only 70 stitches [...]

A trip to the beach of course! I escaped black Friday madness by taking everyone to the beach and I think I’m going to make this my post-Thanksgiving tradition. The weather was awesome. You may remember that I visited Bodega Head back in May (was it really that long ago? I still haven’t finished those [...]

I had some visitors in town recently – Ali, Max and Kelsi – and have therefore been unable to knit much. I promise some progress shots real soon. I thank you for your patience.

The Rebecca Shrug is officially dead. RIP. Frogged. Good God did I really start this thing over 18 months ago!?!?!? With high hopes too I might add. I’ll spare you the boring details but needless to say, it’s already been re-purposed. I LOVE when that happens! Read on… When Ali sent me a text requesting [...]

Yesterday I returned from Ashland where I spent a long weekend and had the extreme pleasure of seeing The Merchant of Venice outdoors, on the Elizabethan stage – a first for me. It was wonderful and the weather was perfect. While strictly verboten, I was able to quickly snap a photo of the stage just [...]

I spent an amazing 48 hours in Ashland and Southern Oregon last weekend and I’m only now getting around to blogging about it. I was felled by a stomach bug the day before last and I’m still not sure if it was the flu or food poisoning but that’s no excuse! Here, now, I’ll tell [...]