craft + activism = craftivism.

This has already made the internet rounds, so this is an “in case you missed it” scenario. Ah, The Colbert Report + radical knitting = awesome. Oh, and I’ve been extra lucky to have lots of lovely crafty links come my way lately, so some of the bestest are below the video. The Colbert Report [...]

The other week I was flattered to have both a reporter and a photographer come to my house for an article for the News & Observer, my local paper. To read the article, you can either click here or click on the photo above. I really like this article because it talks about how much [...]

Some girls may have had Auntie Mame to look up to if they found themselves worried about being single later in life, I had Miss Eglantine Price from 1971′s Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Played by everyone’s favorite amateur sleuth from Maine, the always wonderful Angela Lansbury. She lived in an old house in the countryside in [...]

While I’ve lived all over the place, and sometimes can’t even remember my own address, since the beginning of 2006 I’ve lived in Carrboro, North Carolina. It’s a teeny tiny mill town adjacent to Chapel Hill, home of the University of North Carolina. While I tend to have a love/hate relationship with the tinyness, the [...]

Growing up in the 80s, there was a lot talk about Rocky Balboa. My dad still breaks into song sometimes and sings Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger.” (No, really. Still.) One year we went to Philadelphia to visit my aunt, and we ran up the Rocky Steps and did this: I know you weren’t there [...]