Carole Knits

october zinnia
october zinnia
martinis with a view
martinis with a view
gettysburg fence for
gettysburg fence for
germinate shawl on rocks
germinate shawl on rocks
field of flags 2
field of flags 2
color affection with edge
color affection with edge
cedar leaf shawlette 2
cedar leaf shawlette 2
3_27_2014
3_27_2014
3_18_13
3_18_13
2_24_2014
2_24_2014
1_11_13
1_11_13

Sometimes Mondays

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Are the start of school vacation week. And that means I welcome this particular Monday with open arms.

We’ve got some fun stuffed planned for this week and I promise to pop in and out and tell you about it. In the meantime, thank you for all of the support for my Scary Mommy article. And for those of you who were aware of my flu diagnosis, know that I appear to have dodged the brunt of it and I’m feeling fine and have been fever-free since Friday afternoon.

My self-imposed hibernation made for a pretty low key weekend and I’m just fine with that. There was snacking and music and reading and television and even some knitting. Truthfully, it wasn’t that different than a regular weekend around here!

Well. A regular weekend with cream puffs, anyway.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Catch you in a day or so.

Extra! Extra!

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That surprise I told you about yesterday? It’s ready. Or should I say, it’s published . . .

Diet Culture Is Everywhere — Even In The Workplace

That’s right, friends, I’ve been published! The piece I wrote a few months ago about the women’s workshop I went to has been published on the Scary Mommy page! I’d love for you all to go on over there and read it, click on it, share it on Facebook or twitter . . . whatever you can do to help it be read by lots of people would be so awesome.

Thank you for encouraging me to do this and thanks for being loyal readers. Does this make me a real writer now?

Hello February

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Hello shortest month of the year. You come with a bonus day in 2020. We’ll be spending that extra day this month remembering my brother-in-law Randy. It feels appropriate . . . an extra day . . . a set apart day . . . a day to take a step forward on this journey of grief we are on.

Hello to more light. It’s not dark when I leave work now and I’m grateful for that every day.

Hello to February Celebrations. Black History Month. Valentine’s Day. President’s Day.

Hello to School Vacation Week and a family trip to New Hampshire.

Hello to all the weather you might bring our way. Potential snow days. Cold crisp nights. Warmish days that start to work their way in between those cold ones.

Hello to the Oscars and the culmination of awards season.

Hello to snow drops and daffodil shoots. Hello to garden dreaming and planning.

Hello to bringing us one step closer to spring with easy passing day.

 

15 Years!

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Today is a Wednesday but 15 years ago it was a Saturday. I was home alone and I went into our computer room (no lap tops back on the dark ages) and I started this blog. I wrote a few paragraphs, hit publish, and I added my blog to the knitting bloggers webring . . . because that’s how we followed blogs back in the days before feed readers.

I posted sporadically for a few weeks but pretty quickly settled into a routine of posting Monday through Friday. I figured out how to share photos and I learned that if I commented on other blogs I would get comments on mine. Since then I have written and published 3,585 posts and have received 76,939 comments. I guess we’ve had a lot to say to each other.

Some of those posts have been about knitting but most have been about . . . life. I’ve written about amazing things and sad times, terrific vacations and fabulous parties, loves and losses and transitions, and so much more. I’ve improved my photography skills (thank goodness) and knit some beautiful things and (this is the most important part) I’ve created a community.

It’s that community (which is just a fancy way of saying all of you) that keeps me coming back. Sharing my life with all of you makes it better. You’ve encouraged me and challenged me and supported me and I’m grateful beyond words for all of it.

In other words . . . I’m really glad we’re in this space together. Thanks for sharing this journey with me.

Weekending

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I had a whirlwind of a weekend, friends. I spent it in Boston at the Massachusetts Municipal Association Conference. It was a terrific conference and a great opportunity for networking and learning. I went with colleagues from my hometown, where I serve as selectman, but also met up with colleagues from the town where I work, and I saw many former colleagues and friends from other communities.

The highlight of the conference for me was the WEMO (Women Elected Municipal Officials) Lunch. The speaker was Jackie MacMullan, sportswriter and NBA columnist for ESPN. She spoke about how difficult it was to break into the field of sports writing as a woman and it was riveting. I also enjoyed hearing our governor address us at the annual meeting. He ended his talk with a plea for us to put aside political affiliations and work together to do the best we can for our communities. To that I say, hear! hear!

Dale was able to join me for the weekend and that made it even better. Once my conference responsibilities were over we were able to hang out and people watch, eat some great food, and enjoy the view from the 22nd floor of our hotel room in Boston’s Back Bay.

It was fun to get away but, as always, it was even better to come back home. I spent the better part of Sunday afternoon reading (and perhaps napping) under a blanket in our sunny living room. We ended the evening watching Joker. Not my favorite movie, that’s for sure, but Joaquin Phoenix gave an incredible performance.

How was your weekend?

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