It has been over a year since I last posted. Yikes. I am in the process of deciding what I want to do, now that the kids are in school full time. If I go back to teaching, this would probably be the best route back.

I have been resurrecting a love of reading by giving myself small reading marathons, delving into one author at a time. At the end of 2010 I finished my Jane Austen marathon: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion. I am now reading Dickens, and have finished Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, and A Christmas Carol. I am currently reading Oliver Twist, with The Pickwick Papers and Our Mutual Friend to go. Next up, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, or Henry James (probably James).

I have had some change in direction for making things. I have taken up knitting. This has been a relaxing change, and it keeps my hand and arm muscles in shape. May sound like a joke, and it is funny, but I need to maintain a certain level of fine motor dexterity.