I have some excuses for the extended blogging absence. I was doing other stuff; I am easily distracted and a champion procrastinator; sometimes blogging feels too much like working; etc. And I had an existential crisis over the entire enterprise of maintaining this attempt at an authentic persona in what increasingly seems to me a thoroughly inauthentic medium. But really, I was just busy reading.
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I was trolling through my own favourites on Etsy, and noticed some distinct patterns emerging. Seems there are a few keyword searches I return to over and over (and over). Some things are even favourited multiple times, so I must be really serious about liking them. Here are some recently added items: continue reading »
In the six months since my last post (egads), I’ve spent my non-working, non-full-out-leisure hours making jewelry, decorating the new master bedroom, traveling here and there, gardening a lot (by which I mean weeding a lot), and knitting. Recently I decided to give sock knitting one more shot, and now I’ve become completely obsessed.
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