Lifesastitch and Blogless Marsha have knit across the Atlantic for the third time: This time we added in a calm as a lake English Channel and glassy North Sea. All the way from Miami to Copenhagen there was daily knitting. I kept mine simple on the hands – 100% knit stitch, none of those painful…

There has been a dearth of knitting on this knitting blog, I admit it. Granted, there has been a fair amount of recent excitement in our lives, demonstrated by recent posts, but that's not the reason. Rest assured that my knitting, limping along with these prematurely arthritic wrists, has accompanied me on those recent trips.…

This movie of ours has lead to one surprise after another. I had the privilege of being interviewed on radio by Rudy Maxa. You can listen to the podcast here, starting around minute 23.

Another audience Choice Award: Best Documentary –  Newport Beach Film Festival Imagine you have a kid, who in high school, went from honour roll to a 52 average in 18 months flat. All that parental worry until a year and a half prior to graduation, he discovers his passion, filmmaking. Goes on to four years…

Last stop: memories created in Sonoma. Next stop: Mount Vernon,Washington, home of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival.  I've posted my disenchantment with photography reduced to shots taken from  a phone, replacing the art and  science of photography in its true form. Confession: I left my camera at home. As difficult as it is to admit,…

Audience Choice Award – Sonoma International Film Festival Taking My Parents to Burning Man I was plucked from reality and whisked away to Oz, aka the Sonoma International Film Festival where my son and his partner in filmmaking had their world premier.  There were swag bags: Fantastic accommodation: Photo ops: Press coverage during and after.…

AKA Taking My Mom To The Sonoma International Film Festival. This is a continuation of the story of my son's first feature length documentary Taking My Parents to Burning Man, of a mom and dad accompanying their child to the place of his dreams. The world premier was at SIFF to a sold out crowd…

1. C pointed out that our age difference gets smaller as we get older. M, perhaps this is one of the people from which you inherited the math genes? When he was  50 our age was 8% different. When he turns 100 there will only be a 4% difference. Someone has to think about these…

According to recent stats, in Canada on the average, you get eight of these. If you reside south of the 49th parallel, you'll average seven. I'm about to have my sixth. I'm talking about the big birthdays that end in zero. They occur every ten years, but over time seem to come faster and more…