Category Archives: Explanations

The Curious Question of Is: pt 5

Posted on January 14, 2011 by K

Gotta, gotta, gotta get this last bit down before the house disintegrates around this corner of the couch.  (Just kidding – the disintegration would start at this corner of the couch).  And I don’t even know if I’m still making … Continue reading →

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~:: Of Birth and Holy Birth ::~

Posted on December 21, 2010 by K

I have to explain how I feel about nativities.  My first experience with one was when I was in high school and my dad built a bunch of crèches in his workshop.  Every year, he made stuff in the shop … Continue reading →

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By the Seat of My Pants

Posted on November 24, 2010 by K

A long but, you know, fascinating and timely argument: On the way out to Santa Fe, I went through the usual security checks – I took off my coat and shoes and put them in a tray.  I removed my … Continue reading →

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:: All Hallow’s Eve ::

Posted on October 21, 2010 by K

I’m in the way of writing about Halloween today.  I know I’ve written about it a little before, but today is such a gloriously gloomy sort of day, I’m just feelin’ it.  I love holidays.  I love the ones that … Continue reading →

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:: The Explanation ::

Posted on October 7, 2010 by K

My oldest daughter’s father-in-law is a crazy man.  When he was young, he stepped out of his life, joined the LDS church (alone of all his family), jumped on a motorcycle and took himself to Utah.  There, he went to … Continue reading →

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~o:> Ah, to be clever and crafty!

Posted on September 26, 2010 by K

I guess it’s because of the photobooks that my days disappear so quickly.  My Cammon dropped by the other morning to borrow G’s iPod.  I noticed the green truck at our curb, sandwiched into a line of string players’ vehicles … Continue reading →

Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Explanations, Just talk, Knit Stuff, Making Things, Memories and Ruminations, Pics of Made Things, Seasons | Tagged , , , , , , | 31 Comments

For Sam

Posted on April 23, 2010 by K

This began as a response to comment – in a comment of my own.  But it grew.  And it wasn’t what I wanted to write about today.  And it isn’t arguing with Sam.  The fact is that Sam and Mar … Continue reading →

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Orm ~ part two,too,to

Posted on April 10, 2010 by K

Now, we are just at the end of the medieval period and cruising toward the renaissance, which England only had because Italy had already tried it and ended up having a really great time. Up until this period, there wasn’t … Continue reading →

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At least Orm tried-

Posted on April 9, 2010 by K

I remember a spelling test.  It was third grade I think.  And we used that heavy, yellowish, horizontal lined paper with all the helpful dotted bits to keep your letters straight.  The teacher read out each word v-e-r-y clearly, with … Continue reading →

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~Just for the heck of it

Posted on March 14, 2010 by K

Home from church now. Thinking a lot about the Sunday School lesson I gave last week.  And here to bring you yet another shocking article about how oddly LDS people see the universe. Three words we don’t use a whole … Continue reading →

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