Life Entrepreneurs

I just finished reading a great book called Life Entrepreneurs by Christopher Gergen & Gregg Vanourek. The authors interviewed 55 entrepreneurs and looked at the commonalities. Basically, everyone married their hobbies or passions to their work – or stated differently, their work is their passion. This doesn’t mean you become a workaholic or anything, just…

Sensory Processing Disorder or Asperger’s?

I think a lot of times children are misdiagnosed with Asperger’s or autism when in reality it is probably sensory processing disorder. I am not pretending to be a doctor here and make an armchair diagnosis of anyone, but I think there is a lot of commonality between the three that is missed or not…

Cast On, Cast Off

Last week’s Stitch & Bitch was a lesson in casting on and off. Over the last few weeks of knitting on Wednesday evenings, everyone has finished something and has needed to cast off. Pam stopped knitting last week when she ran out of yarn since she had knitter her last ball of yarn and needed…

Stitch & Bitch

Well, I hosted my first Stitch & Bitch last week to teach several people how to knit. Some had knit when they were kids (or at least in their younger days), and some were completely new to knitting. We met at 4 pm down at Creative Hands in Belmont (my LYS). Everyone picked out a big ball of…