Daily Archives: July 8, 2018

A Pair of Mitts

My family sometimes does a yarn swap for Christmas. Everyone puts in a skein of yarn in a brown bag. Then the bags are mixed up. Then you draw a name and then you take turns taking a brown bag … Continue reading

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Atwood approved

Naomi Alderman’s novel The Power was published in 2016, and it certainly responds to the current political times in the guise of fictionalized history as modeled by Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.  The basic premise is that females of the … Continue reading

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