Twisted Stitches

We haven’t lived in Vermont for nearly 8 months now, but this week marks the end of a chapter for us. We sold our 150 year old farmhouse, cutting off a major tie to the state. I’m not sure that rural living was the best fit for us, but we do have some funny stories [...]

Santa Cruz ♥

Learn-to-Row Day came and went this spring, reminding me that the rowing club that I belonged to last year would soon be starting its 2008 summer season. Of course, as soon as the ice broke and the raging water from the snow melt had passed, there were scullers and crews rowing up and down the [...]

While tagging along to the guitar store a few months back, I fell in love with a bubblegum pink (Hello) KittyCaster. Yeah, it’s a cheap, Fender-sanctioned-Stratocaster-knockoff with a horrible pickup, but with something that obnoxious smiling at you from the guitar stand across the room, how could anyone resist picking it up? The first song [...]