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Continue reading →: thanks, I made it!Remember the end of my previous post, when I shared how Muse told me it could “take a task off my plate” by creating a “crayon masterpiece” of a photo it grabbed of me and my then-infant daughter, wearing matching sweaters? Well, I am nothing if not stubborn, and so,…
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Continue reading →: an open woundDon’t worry, I won’t be sharing a photo of it…but I have indeed been walking around (as little as I can manage, but that’s likely still more than I ought to be) with an open wound this week, in a very literal sense. Here’s the story: on Tuesday morning, I…
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Continue reading →: a bedraggled welcome to fallTomorrow is the Fall Equinox, though we celebrated it as a family yesterday because tomorrow is also a cross-country meet day for the kiddo. So was this past Saturday, when she woke up at the crack of dawn, got herself ready and walked to the high school to get on…
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Continue reading →: rivulets is finished!Shortly after our “Homecoming/Water Communion” service at church yesterday, a service centered around water and joining our raindrops and tiny streams into a mighty river, I stitched the final buttons onto the cardigan that I had named after tiny streams of water: Rivulets is complete! Pattern: “Rivulets”, from my own…
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Continue reading →: labor day, 2026First week of classes went quite well, but seemed to be several weeks long somehow. Time is weird. Tomorrow, my daughter will start high school. She’s ready, but I’m not sure I am! Yesterday, we played a violin duet (a Locatelli Presto) as part of our Backpack Blessing/Labor Day service…
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Continue reading →: goodbye, august. hello, fall semester.This morning, I ran the first Graduate Writing workshop of the semester, and tomorrow, I’ll teach the first day of all three of my classes for the semester. I guess I’m as ready as I’ll ever be, but I still feel so unsettled about this year, with all of the…
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Continue reading →: late-august blues.Working on a blue sweater, wearing a blue dress and necklace, and feeling kinda blue. This is the final week before my fall semester classes start. I have them almost ready to open up on Blackboard, but ooof, the process of getting there has been rough. I spent so much…
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Continue reading →: presence/presentsI didn’t actually do much knitting this week, in part because last week, my self-soothing obsession with knitting that double-knit button band on size 0 needles for my self-designed Rivulets sweater left me with a little bit of soreness in my forearms, so I decided I should take it easy…
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Continue reading →: make (sour)do(ugh) and mendWell, I mentioned being uncertain about whether we would actually get back into sourdough in my post a couple weeks ago, but then King Arthur Baking Company had a big sale and we decided to go for it. So, everyone…meet Arthur the Sourdough Starter: Yesterday we did the first “maintenance”…
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Continue reading →: and now it’s augustAnd like most academics, the flip of the calendar page to August heralds the impending start of Fall Semester, and the realization of just how much work must be done to prepare for it. Which is a fun backdrop for everything else that’s going on. I have always, always struggled…
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Continue reading →: floating in spaceYesterday at church, I finished the Willow Cowl I started while we were up in Wisconsin. A soft light blue that will fill a gap in the many-colored collection of Willow Cowls that are part of my wardrobe: The service was a wonderful one run by our 20s-30s group on…
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Continue reading →: i’m back!Today’s my first Monday since returning from a little over two weeks in Wisconsin with my family. It was a much-needed “true break” for me, in that I didn’t get my laptop out even once during our time there, and instead, spent as much time as I could off my…
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Continue reading →: a good groundhog for a good goodbyeToday, we bid farewell to our lead minister of the last 7 years, Rev. Shari Quan. We first learned they would be leaving us back in April, and basically the second we read the letter announcing that (and had a good cry), my daughter and I decided that we wanted…
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Continue reading →: hello, summerYesterday was the Summer Solstice, and as is our tradition, we made “Tarte Soleil” and switched the wool felt garland that hangs across our arched wall between the dining room and the living room (the header image on this post). This year, kiddo did the garland all by herself, and…
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Continue reading →: mid-june musingsSo much of my life is centered around the academic calendar, rather than the usual January-December calendar, which means we’re in the season of winding down: final lessons, concerts, recitals, celebrations, etc. In a couple of weeks, my child will be a rising high-schooler! And before this school year ends,…
whit::knits
Hello,
I’m whitney
I’m a knitter and all-around crafty person, a maker to my core, a violinist who also dabbles in ukulele and piano, a linguist/cognitive scientist who teaches writing, a progressive Unitarian Universalist, a parent to an amazing kid, a lover of cats and of all things related to language and the mind.
