If I can't be a dragon-whisperer, can I at least befriend a talking dog?
I started keeping a bird species life list ten years ago. On it, I note the date and place where I first saw a bird of a specific species, known to birders as a lifer. Of course, I don’t actually know or remember when I saw common birds that I’ve been seeing since I was... Continue Reading →
While 2026 looks like it’s going to be as crazy as 2025, I have at least one good thing to say about January: I finished my project of the month! This is especially surprising as the Advent calendar I started in 2020 was a long way from done. Every December, my nephew and I open... Continue Reading →
As I explained last week, I’m doing a project-of-the-month (POM) challenge for 2026. I’ve picked twelve projects I want to start or finish and numbered them. I tried for a range of sizes and types of projects, with mixed success. There’s lots of sewing here, because that’s what I’ve accumulated the most of over the... Continue Reading →
Finishing The Gift of Sensitivity was much harder than I expected. When I decided last February to focus on it in 2025, I didn’t realized it would actually reduce my productivity. Giving myself a deadline usually helps me to finish things, but in this instance it also caused some problems. As I’ve mentioned before, my... Continue Reading →
My 2025 creative project “The Gift of Sensitivity” is done. This massive princess-and-the-pea miniature now lives in a glass cabinet in our house. There have been some interesting comments about it. "The Gift of Sensitivity" by Kit Dunsmore I overheard my husband telling someone I’d been working on this for five years. I thought “Ten!”... Continue Reading →
