Coming to you from the home of the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals!

The end of the World Series means the end of baseball---so summer really is over---in case those 40 degree temperatures were not a clue.

My knitting injury is behind me, so I am making holiday presents:


Berets and fingerless gloves for the people who make my life a lot easier at work. I still have a way to go since there are a few really helpful people

My knitting break came at the same time as my fall break, so I took up something new. I am trying to learn sewing and eventually quilting. It's odd that I have this strong urge to create tangible things of late. It is relatively new to me.

Never done this before, but it seemed like fun. Remember, I can't knit and I don't feel like grading.

Four jobs I've had:

Copywriter
Producer
Professor
Camp counselor

Four movies I can watch over and over:

The Great Escape
The Magnificent Seven (a bit of a Steve McQueen thing going on)
He Said, She Said
Anchorman (I know, just forgive me)

Four places I have lived:

Boston
Baltimore
Tucson
St. Louis

Four television shows I love to watch:

House
The Office
Law and Order CI
Gray's Anatomy

Four places I have been on vacation:

Estes Park
Israel
Pick a beach, any beach
London

Four of my favorite dishes:

Grilled cheese with tuna
Cheesecake
Bananas Foster
Fresh peaches

Four websites I visit daily:

CNN
Crazy Aunt Purl
MSNBC
Eonline

Four places I would like to be right now:

Pick a beach, any beach.
Jerusalem
Paris
At a Cardinals playoff game

You know you are getting old when you doctor puts you on an anti-inflamatory medication and tells you to stop knitting for a week. I am suffering from a knitting injury, according to one of my sons. This seems to crack my husband and sons up. I, however, am not amused.

The offending wrist attached to the weakened hand. Besides being wrinkled, big and ugly, it now doesn't even work right. Plus it need a manicure.

Fall is here, and I just couldn't get past the frustration of a recent failed cardigan. So I made this simple pullover with something called Smile. It was so fast and easy that I didn't even have time to mind all the stockinette. So now I have a football game sweater, though with my kids at college, I'm not going to many football games. Still, it's nice to complete something and put the bad vibes of a lousy project behind me.