February 16, 1965

Somehow still making stuffed animals

February 16, 1965

WABC #1 Come See About Me - Supremes

Well! V is playing in the Senior-Undies game! He'll be at the dance for sure - how I hope he'll dance with me - over and over again! I must be careful what I say - not to be too unfeminine or too timid. I wish I knew how to charm a boy. Who knows? Maybe I have! I'd better list the animals I have to make: Helen: 1 white rabbit, 1 dark brown dog. Terese: 1 orange and brown horse. Orange and brown?

YECH!

February 16, 1997

Sunday — cold and bright. But there are crocuses and daffodils poking up in the yard, and on my walk yesterday I saw many buds on the trees. So spring will come.

My dragons? The biggest one is Making Promises I Can’t Keep. Having Big Ideas and letting them wither and die of neglect. (Like the book, like most of my research in the last 5 years.) It is time to get a few choice things done, if only for the sake of inner peace.

Rex, the old deaf dog, is clawing at the bedroom door. He just got in, but he wants out. He wants to lie in the hall. I yell at him, but he can’t hear me.

Blessed be the day for Rex and Suzy.

February 16, 2023

Amazing how we could downsize so much when we moved into a quarter of our old space, but the same old dragons are still hanging around. My shift from one department to another in the early 90s short-circuited my research, including a book project that never got past the first draft. Instead, I dove into my teaching, developing new courses every year and experimenting with innovative methods, from hybrid courses to service learning. Twenty years later, history repeated itself. Book idea>proposal>three chapters drafted, and POOF. Now I am knitting several hours a day while writing fewer than 200 words. Maybe I should knit a dragon.

(Author Kim Harrison’s knitted dragon; it’s a free pattern!)