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What the reader brings to a text 26 Aug 2013 | 06:48 am
Long ago in a distant galaxy, far, far away, I taught writing. In the spring of 1996, I found myself hired to teach an introductory composition course in a spare room on the second floor of the campu...
In which I meet my cookie quota and continue work on Dotghan 1.0 23 Aug 2013 | 06:45 am
Yesterday I took an inventory of my crochet cookies, and set myself a goal that I would have to meet before I could continue work on Dotghan 1.0. Having determined that I needed to crochet at least t...
Modest progress 21 Aug 2013 | 06:55 am
I hit a bit of a crochet wall the last couple of days. The school year is about to begin, and with it, the onslaught of “things that must get done now.” There are appointments for eyeglasses and orth...
Dotghan 1.0 19 Aug 2013 | 06:43 am
This past Friday I spent much of my crochet time working on some of the 392 small crochet cookies I will need for this year’s large state fair project, Cookieghan 2.0. Because of the progress I made ...
Working through the doubts 16 Aug 2013 | 07:32 am
One hazard of working on a large project is that you don’t always know if you will really be able to create (or in this instance recreate in yarn) the vision that is dancing in your head, and my attem...
Crunching numbers 14 Aug 2013 | 07:45 am
In the thirteen days since the month of August began, officially kicking off what is known at my house as “crochet season,” I have begun work on the crochet cookies I will need for this year’s entry: ...
Ghosts of state fairs past 12 Aug 2013 | 07:58 am
This weekend as I worked on crocheting the cookies needed for my 2013 North Carolina State Fair project, Cookieghan 2.0, I found myself thinking of projects past and how each one of them has, in some ...
What a difference a week makes 9 Aug 2013 | 08:19 am
This time seven days ago I found myself in a bit of a quandary about what to do for my 2013 North Carolina State Fair project. I had awakened to the fact that the project I had thought I would be abl...
In which I finish the taco purse 7 Aug 2013 | 07:41 am
For me, part of preparing to work on my state fair project is to finish whatever “urgent” projects might be in my personal queue, and the taco purse was one such project. I had completed all of the p...
Hardcore crochet 5 Aug 2013 | 08:32 am
There is a Mexican restaurant near my house that is a favorite of ours, and when we go there to eat, I often (read: “always”) bring a crochet project with me. One time while we were waiting for our o...
