Sarah’s knitting items for sale Below are a range of items that I would be delighted to knit for you. Please get in touch with me as I will most likely be making the project for you from scratch. I do have some hats on hand. These items are to give you a general sense of price and style, and we will discuss color, size, weight, warmth, material, complexity and price. I am also willing to finish projects (if I can) or help with knitting questions.

This was an emotionally challenging blog post to write. I have never been comfortable talking about abortion because it is so personal. I don’t want to judge anyone or touch on a painful area. So many women have had a miscarriage and carry that pain. Some may have pain around…

A few weeks ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) suggested that the blue and red states should get divorced. I had always heard that blue states contribute more to the federal government than they take out, which would mean — if no alimony payments are expected — that divorcing the red…

ChatGPT was all over the news last week as reporters and professors tried out the AI. The underlying software is based on GPT 3.5, and GPT 3.5 and GPT 3 had a similar week of experimentation and wonder. …

You may have heard these three topics talked about together recently and thought, what is that about, and do I care? This is a quick summary of what that is about so you can decide if you care. …

Many school districts, and even some states, are having intense and sometimes violent disagreements about mask mandates. The people who are against the mask mandates, according to polls, are in the minority. An overwhelming 72%-28% of those surveyed by USA TODAY and Ipsos called mask mandates “a matter of health…

Women and the descendants of enslaved people* can now vote, too. The Supreme Court just made a momentous decision about voting rights. I started thinking, so how much power did white men lose when they had to start sharing votes with the rest of us? To determine how much power…

The above video is by a Black man who doesn’t want his children to be taught about systemic racism because he worries that this will make them feel they cannot be anything they want to be. In the United States, we set a lot of store by the individual…

Thank you all as you came with me on my journey through the passage of HB 3979 in Texas. If Texas Governor Abbott does push to revisit the law in a special legislative session, I may need to write more, but for now, some concluding thoughts. I have been struggling…