Spectators in the stands at my most recent gay rodeo. Competitors and crew will be the next entry, followed by shots of the competition. In ...

Errata So math isn't my strong suit, as many of you found out reading the opening line of yesterday's post . In my mind, I'm not...

I'm not even halfway to 40 yet and I'm already becoming a cranky old man. That's the dark side of precocity. At five, it's c...

Wotan had taken away her immortality, but at least she still had her knitting needles. I'm an opera fan, and while I don't listen to...

From beyond the grave, your grandmother's restless spirit calls out to know why the hell that blue merino sweater with the traveling ca...

When I was four or five, my father built me a puppet theater for Christmas. This thing was awesome - a sturdy, free-standing wooden booth wi...

With some trepidation I have added a new design to the shop . Sure, she's a timeless symbol of love and beauty. But can she knit? I have...

The decoration at left, which seemed appropriate for this festive entry, is the work of an accomplished Belgian vandal. I photographed it in...

It's extremely pleasant to check the mail on a Monday morning and find it full of wisecracks in response to the contest. There aren'...

Such a week. We're in crunch mode. I have seen four of my coworkers cry in the past five days. (And I don't mean tear up. I mean sob...

Grandpa Franklin, do you remember the night the White Sox won the World Series? Why, yes I do, Timmy. I remember it as though it were only y...

Specifically, the growing numbers of yuppie families who are moving into Boystown from Lincoln Park or the suburbs. More specifically, the m...

While my personal bundle of glee was away making whoopee with his fellow Prince fanatics in Minneapolis, I was left alone in the Wicked Cit...

I work in a big old house, now university property, that sits on the edge of a wealthy neighborhood full of Motivated Modern Parents. You kn...

It occurs to me that it has been a long time since this blog saw what I would consider to be a nice, solid, sustained piece of writing. I ha...

In Which I Am Surrounded by Knitters and Yarn and Surrender Unconditonally Joe and Thaddeus not only treated me to a lovely dinner on my fir...

In Which I Get Picked Up By a Hot Gay Couple Having now reached my thirties, I've made peace with the fact that while God gave me the ab...

In Which a Fellow Knitter Saves Me from a Complete Meltdown So, we pushed back from the gate twenty minutes late and then sat on the runway ...

In Which I Nearly Moon O'Hare Terminal B To get through airport security I always have to take off my boots, which have steel toes; and ...

Author's Apologia Let's just get this out in the open right now and be done with it. My photos of the New York Sheep and Wool Fest...