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On Dealing with Manipulative Behavior
So, as a writer and knit designer, I keep certain social media accounts public. I use these accounts for updating readers, posting about projects, doing…
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Amos Burton, the Unlikely Sage
On the occasion of family turmoil, I've done a lot of thinking about anger. There seems to be a lot of it around me, although none of it is actually…
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In Consideration of Turning 43
Hello, old friend. No, really. It's been a really, really long time since I've written anything substantive here. So long, in fact, that even doing a…
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On Happiness
When I think about this calendar year objectively, it's hard to justify calling it the happiest year of my life, but it is. As it stands, it's been 7…
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On Recognizing Love
Peonies grow in The place inside my heart that Your love inhabits I originally wrote this haiku about a beautiful friend of mine last year, back when I…
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What We Leave Behind
It's been a long time since I have given this blog a real update, mostly because I've been firing on all cylinders over the last 5 months or so, first…
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On Other Worlds than These
I have been blazing through the rest of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King these last couple of weeks. I took a long break after reading The…
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On Loss and Mourning
Last night, after a couple of lengthy and very cathartic conversations with two incredibly different and yet equally strong and compelling women, I…
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On Unreasonable Expectations
Someone asked me, “Who hurt you?” I replied, “My own expectations.” I can’t find an attribution for this quote, so if anyone knows where it originated…
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On Positivity in Daily Life
The last couple of years have been a really long journey for me in shedding the baggage picked up from various parts of my life. This year in…
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Haiku and Thoughts (Veniss Underground / The War of Art)
My words flow freely Through time and space and sadness Like sand through fingers I don't exactly remember when I wrote this haiku. I do know that it's…
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Confluence: Yarn, Knitting, and Barbara Kingsolver
Well, here we are. This is my first non-Close Reading blog post (not counting quotes and albums) in a really long time. Life has been a bit of a winding…
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