One of the most frustrating things I experience as a parent is when groups and organizations don’t tell us what we need to know when we need to know it. Here are some simple ways to effectively communicate with parents and guardians.
I love this piece about Leonard Cohen (painstakingly slow writer of songs) and Bob Dylan (fast writer). I’m certainly more a Dylan than a Cohen. If I can’t nail something down quickly, I’m far more […]
This is the 7th post in a 7 part series on how to write an outstanding crochet pattern. The rest of the series can be found here: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, […]
It’s been a while since I lost my shit about something to do with being a book writer. Leave it to the Authors Guild to get me back to it. Google has been doing a […]
It took a few months for me to get my work life in order earlier this year so I could do as little work as possible on the road. As it turned out, that ended […]
The most ambitious book I’ve had the pleasure of editing is, hands down, Donna Druchunas’s and June Hall’s Lithuanian Knitting. Born of a mutual fascination with and personal dedication to the knitting traditions of this Eastern […]
Rachael Herron is the bestselling author of the new novel Splinters of Light, the five-book Cypress Hollow romance series, and the memoir A Life in Stitches. As we discuss in the podcast, I’ve read Rachael’s blog for […]
At the very end of 2013, after my first properly relaxing holiday in a couple of years, I had a major realization about my general situation. I realized that I was wrong when I thought I’d […]
