It only took twenty-seven years, but it has happened at last. Last night, I watched a Star Wars movie for the first time ever. Yes, you read...

Due to a serious miscalculation, Laughing Boy suddenly finds himself with two arm and four leg pieces to go, and about five feet of Lang Yar...

Memorial Day used to be something I looked forward to, as most folks do. It meant the beginning of my favorite season, three days away from ...

When I bought the Rowan Felted Tweed for the Edo Scarf in Amsterdam, I didn't know what the colorways were. There was nothing on the la...

Last night the world was simply becoming too much for me, so I took a ball of yarn that originally wanted to be a sock, but changed its mind...

Work on the Jack the Teddy Bear continues. Alas, the more I knit, the more there seems to be to knit. I'm like the Red Queen in Through ...

Susan as Ghost, 2003 Originally uploaded by panopticon . On this day, in 1976, my oldest and dearest friend was born: my sister, Susan. I w...

Chicago El, July 2003 Originally uploaded by panopticon . I finished college in the summer of 1992, smack in the middle of a nasty recessio...

In the Church of Our Lady, Bruges Originally uploaded by panopticon . I seem, knock on wood, to be well again. On the debit side, I missed ...

Teddy Bear Body, 75% complete Originally uploaded by panopticon . I'm sick at home today. Some kind of stomach bug. You shall be spared...

I think I've arrived. I checked my statistics during a lull in the afternoon and found that somebody reached this blog by typing in ...

This weekend's theme was "movies." "The answer is forty-two." C and I did something uncharacteristic and went to a f...

Wooden Shoe Display, Amsterdam Originally uploaded by panopticon . The picture above has absolutely nothing to do with anything I'm goi...

Rock concerts are never going to be my natural habitat, but for me last night was partly about the music, partly about having an interesting...

You'll never guess what. Go ahead, guess. Wrong. Tonight I am going to a rock concert. I've never been to one before, unless you cou...

Tourist in the Maze, Keukenhof Gardens, Holland Originally uploaded by panopticon . The fellow in the photo is a French tourist who got los...

When we were in college, Birdfarm was always a dab hand at analyzing texts. She's done it again with her take on an article in the Summe...

Amsterdam Scarf, completed Originally uploaded by panopticon . ...or: How I Worked Nine Feet of Garter Stitch and Almost Lost My Mind. Abov...

Okay, I did it. I signed up for Stitches Midwest.* Three classes, two in knitting lace and one in intarsia. It looks like a lot of classes a...

I work out at the straightest gym on the planet. Even the male aerobics instructors are straight, and honestly I thought that was against th...