July 2017

Dear Everyone, I am writing this letter to you from my current location in the hallway. I am surrounded on all sides by boxes. These are the deep, dark recesses of my guest room closet pulled out and exposed to light for the first time in three years. I have…

I did it! The whole room is empty and clean. The before and after pictures are astonishing and awfully embarrassing: Ok, let’s state the obvious: It’s embarrassing to share these before pictures! In these days of impeccably perfect Instagram lives, I’m pretty sure this is the kind of thing you…

It happened. As promised, he cast on. And he is knitting! The captain has sat next to me during endless nights of knitting: there was my Stockholm hat phase, my Helsinki hat phase, one scarf, two sets of prototype socks and one recently cast-on prototype redux sock. He likes the…

This morning Drew and I talked on the phone — he’ll be here in just over two weeks! — and I was updating him on the progress in the guest room. “It’s not just that one room, though,” I told him. “This desire to organize and clean and declutter and…

It’s Saturday. It’s just shy of 8 a.m. All week I’ve been looking forward to the weekend, knowing I would have two days to myself to continue my declutter decathalon. Um, IT IS NOT GOING WELL. Quick(ish) Recap The guestroom is my current huge declutter challenge. I am only working…

Last night the Captain called and said he wants to learn knitting. At first I thought I had accidentally dropped peyote or licked the wallpaper in a lead-based shanty but nope, it was not a dream, the man wants to learn to make a scarf! I got super excited. “I…