Eddie Izzard is one of my favorite comedians, which I think says a lot of very accurate things about me as a person. His stuff is dark in many ways but also pants-pissingly hilarious. And tonight, I’m going to see him live ….  Read More

Everyone in the Finnish school system gets taught how to knit. That doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone learns or even that everyone who learns retains the knowledge. For years, I was like that. I kept yarn around because I wanted to think ….  Read More

For the past two weeks I’ve been in desperate need of a holiday. I’ve been tired after more or less working non-stop on both day job, upping my skills for the day job, as well as writing. All at the same time ….  Read More

Saturday night, just before midnight, I took out my sourdough starter, added a bit of flour and left it to sit. In other words, it was a very glamorous Saturday night. The first breads were probably made around 11.600 – 14.600 years ….  Read More

I slept terribly last night and can’t seem to function. By next week I will hopefully have finished the notes for a sleep book I’m reading and want to blog about and if not that, I have a post on bread I ….  Read More

There’s a tendency, especially among creatives, to demand a lot of yourself. In one way this a good thing. Most creatives need a day job to, you know, pay the bills, sometimes two. The only way to get anything done is pushing ….  Read More

After last week’s post went live, two excellent colleagues – Stephanie Charette and Simone Heller – noted that they hadn’t been able to make Habitica work for them and I realized I’ve had troubles on that front as well. It took me ….  Read More

Yesterday, I sent off my first short story submission since November 2017 (and my first rejection in about the same time some few hours later). Mostly that’s because I’ve been working on novels between then and now. A lot of it was ….  Read More

I mentioned previously that I have a tendency of setting overly ambitious goals for myself and that also applies to knitting. 2017 my goal was to knit 12 shawls, and last year to knit 12 sweaters. I finished the 12 shawls in ….  Read More