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This is a tale with two beginnings.

The first one is the most recent.  It started several weeks ago.  I am the Activity Director at my local nursing home and one of our most beloved activities is Crochet Club.  These women learned to crochet on their mother’s or grandmother’s lap, or taught themselves as a child.  We have over 250 years of combined experience.  But age has taken its toll and left its mark and we struggle a little more every day.  Some of us struggle a little, or a lot, more than others, and some of us just plain don’t get it.  But we try and that’s what’s important. Read more >>

“Why do you weave?” is a question with boundless answers. Weaving produces functional, aesthetic, and comforting items, and the process itself ranges from entertaining, meditative or creative to laborious and challenging. Whatever our reasons, weaving forms part of an identity, and can thus link people across boundaries of nationality, culture, and class through efforts at understanding.  Read more >>

When I was about to turn thirty, I freaked out a bit. I thought it was the end of my youth, and here I was, a corporate drone. None of the big accomplishments I’d expected of myself had come to pass. My life, I figured, was pretty much over.

And then a miracle occurred.  Read more >>