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Every time I make one of these tank sweaters, I have to re-learn how to do a technique called “purl through front and back of each stitch.” This is the technique that creates the gathered, draping look of the front … Continue reading
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Yarn Along
With two nominating conventions and an upcoming summer Olympics, I thought it was time to start a somewhat-complex knitting project. This tank sweater isn’t hard to make (if you’ve been reading our blog for a while you’ve probably seen me … Continue reading
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Final Thoughts on Jonathan Lyons’ The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
The anti-intellectualism of early Christianity makes me genuinely angry. This anger dates back to my reading of Charles Freeman’s The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason in the winter of 2012, but … Continue reading
A Review of Ian Caldwell’s The Fifth Gospel
Fact #1 that I learned from Ian Caldwell’s The Fifth Gospel: some Catholic priests can get married. The protagonist of this book is Alex Andreou, an Eastern Catholic priest who lives in the Vatican with his five-year-old son. As an … Continue reading
Yarn Along: The Return
In honor of this week’s Republican convention, I’m reading Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here. The “it” of the title is basically totalitarianism. The novel was published in 1935 – so presumably written mostly in the years just before 1935 … Continue reading
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A Review of Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know
I’m not sure why, but I expected this book to be similar to The Kite Runner – and it would be, I suppose, if The Kite Runner were written by Joseph Conrad. This novel is about two friends: grown men … Continue reading
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I was out of town (without knitting) for five days out of the last seven, so I haven’t made much progress on my sangria sweater. However, I did finish the first sleeve yesterday morning. I’m pretty sure I made the sleeve … Continue reading
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Yarn Along
I knit so much this weekend that I got a knitting headache. Do other people get these? I get in the habit of thinking my body operates on a different set of rules than anyone else’s, but maybe knitting headaches … Continue reading
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Yarn Along
Books about the Middle Ages always go so well with my sangria sweater. I wonder why that is. I’m making great progress on the sweater. I’ve just started decreasing for the sleeves on the front panel. The back panel is … Continue reading
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An Artsy Cat Photo…
…because I just can’t even. This is Helen. Helen, meet the internet. Internet, meet Helen. I may be off my blogging game lately, but at least I’m not as bad as the guest commentator on CNN who just described Hitler … Continue reading
Postcards From Purgatory 