Hobbies

Flooded With Potential

Last week, Stephen and I completed our first European house sit. It was a lovely family with a well-mannered dalmatian that we took for walks in a beautiful park. We unpacked our bags for the first time in weeks, showered regularly, washed all of our clothes, ate 3 hot meals a day, rested our feet,…

The Greenhouse Effect

Today marks exactly 4 months that I’ve been a homeless, nomadic backpacker. I have been in England for 3 1/2 weeks. In this time, I have journaled every day, worked on bits of story, and before we got to England I published my newest rider in ‘The Empyrean Series’, ‘Inteneration‘. This week, for the first…

The Challenge

This photo combines 3 of my current hobbies: iPhone photography (don’t laugh), crochet, and drawing. I taught myself to crochet 3 years ago, while I lived in Sweden. I’m currently taking free online classes to learn how to get better at taking pictures on my iPhone. My artist friend Liz is giving me drawing lessons….

Potholders

Are you familiar with these items: In case you didn’t know, the above is a loom with a bag of loops. These are used to make potholders. As a child, I made somewhere close to 40 million of these potholders. I know all about nylon loops versus cotton loops. I made so many, that…

We all know that S likes to bicycle. Another of his hobbies is making things grow. Apart from the hoop house and the gardening work we do for the landlords, S has some other plants growing: (Strawberry plants. I got to eat some strawberries from them this summer) (Parsley and thyme growing in the kitchen window)…