Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Tags:
crafts,
gift,
knitting,
scarf
I made a friend (who no longer lives in the same hemisphere as me!) a scarf for a Christmas gift. It was great getting a very happy email from her when the gift reached her doorstep. Something about the distance it traveled to get there made it even more gratifying, I think.
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Tags:
community,
crafting,
knitting,
Massachusetts
As most Boston-area residents know by now, yesterday there was a massive gas-truck explosion in Everett, Mass., which took out many cars and several homes in a huge conflagration. I don’t know if you’ve seen the photos, but the destructive power of the fire was positively hellish. Miraculously nobody was killed or even hurt in this disaster, but 13 families are now homeless, as the houses burned in the fire were multi-family.
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