Here’s the one I bought her!

I like how your mind works!

That’s how my mom does it! I’ll admit, I don’t completely get it, although it sort of makes sense in my head if I don’t think about it too hard. Time to go back into YouTube tutorials!

It’s the joining that I can’t seem to make click in my head! I need to get my butt over to the yarn shop and find someone who is willing to sit and knit with me until I get it to make sense.

Oh, and also, your stand up set sounds super-fun!

I don’t trust myself to drink and knit! I just know that in the cold, sober light of morning, there will be dropped stitches and uneven tension all over the place.

Probably not in theatres, but this is essentially my perfect snow-day movie. Mediocre films about rich, older white ladies Embracing Life!, Old Fashioneds, brownies, and a large amount of pasta.

What?! No. That is bullshit. Your college assigns you a fucking email address! You can’t download the readings off Blackboard without it!

I got my mother a tote bag for Mothers’ Day last year that says “I have two needles. You have two eyes. Don’t mess with a person that knits.” She uses it to carry her knitting on the train and it makes me so happy.

My mother (bless her) tried to teach me to knit MULTIPLE times throughout my childhood, and it never stuck. Three years ago, I asked her to teach me again and somehow, she agreed. We got some chunky yarn and a pair of bamboo needles, and it finally clicked. I now love to knit, though I am not currently able to knit in…

Time to rewatch season 1? Or just show up to work with a set of double-pointed needles so you can stab out twice as many eyes?

To be fair, it’s not like Interweave had her on the cover. But as a knitter, I am SO FUCKING PUMPED that she’s a total knitting stan. It IS cool! (Or rather, very warm, because I have this bomb fucking Fair Isle socks).

Hell, I am and I kind of feel the same way. Don’t get me wrong—Letitia Wright was absolutely the right choice for the role; she’s luminous, funny as fuck, and has a great connection (and physical similarities) with Chadwick Boseman. I just...I struggle with the ways in which I feel like I’m only accepted as black when…

It’s not? Oh...

Oh, I hope you have a wonderful time! It’s a beautiful, walkable city, and there are so many good museums and restaurants and architectural things...sigh. It’s amazing.

Thanks for the heads up! I did.

I love the Venus of Willendorf! When I studied abroad in college, our art history professor took us on a field trip to see her at the NHM—she technically had slides of it, but we managed to convince her we should go see it in person and conveniently, we should stop and discuss in this nearby cafe that has really good…

Really? I suppose it’s because I left I learned how common we are—there are a lot of skeptical/liberal/feminist Mormon blogs that I guess draw the sort of people who are on their way out (as well as the unconvinced who stay for their own reasons), but at the same time, everyone in my UU congregation here who finds out…

That’s what moved me out of Mormonism into Unitarian Universalism.

I miss my old spin class from college—the really cool dance professor taught it, and Nina always had the BEST playlists (lots of Motown and early 2000s girl group pop). She was really kind and encouraging, and since it ended at 8 AM, you could go straight to the dining hall for biscuits and gravy after (back when I…