While you can safely freeze rhubarb for later use, I’ve always found that fresh rhubarb has the best flavor. That’s one reason I appreciate having a summer kitchen in my screened-in porch. By the time rhubarb is ready to harvest, the days are hot more often than not, and I prefer to keep that heat…
One of the things I love about rhubarb season is that it never takes much convincing to turn a basket of fresh rhubarb into dessert. Today I didn’t quite have enough rhubarb for a full-sized crisp, but honestly, that worked out perfectly. I had been wanting to experiment with the recipe anyway—reducing the sugar a…
One of my favorite things about XV Sudoku is how quickly certain numbers start behaving differently from standard Sudoku — especially the number 5. In XV Sudoku: At first this seems simple enough, but it creates a surprisingly interesting side effect: A cell connected to an X or V can never contain a 5. That…
Being a geeky crafter, of course I wanted to cross stitch my own QR code for my website. Not just print one. Not just frame one. Actually stitch one by hand and see if it would still scan. Naturally, this turned into a delightful little experiment involving graph paper, QR code error correction, repeated testing…
There’s a moment that happens to me more often than I’d like. I find something interesting — a pin, a post, an idea — and I click. And then… Before I can even see what I came for: Sometimes I close the tab before I even get there. Not because I didn’t want the information…
For most of my crocheting life — and we’re talking about 30 years here — I did not use stitch markers. I thought they were unnecessary.A little fussy.Maybe even a bit of a time-waster. And then I met amigurumi. If you’ve ever crocheted in continuous rounds, you already know…finding that first stitch again is not…
There is magic everywhere. Not the loud, glittering kind.Not the kind you have to chase or prove. The quiet kind. The kind that shows up as coincidence.As something arriving at just the right moment.As a thought that feels like it didn’t quite come from you—but landed gently anyway. I pulled a card recently that suggested…
I just wanted to share a quick note about one of my favorite Sudoku variants — the XV Puzzle. Most of us are familiar with the classic Sudoku rules:numbers 1 through 9 must appear once (and only once) in each row, column, and 3×3 box. The XV puzzle adds an additional layer of logic. When…
Tonight feels like one of those quiet little moments that deserves a bit of reflection. I’ve been working on a puzzle I found recently that seems to contain half the things I love — books, owls, lantern light, and a mysterious doorway opening to mountains beyond. Piece by piece it’s been revealing its story, and…
When the Wizard Almost Reverted Everything There’s a popular narrative about WordPress and WooCommerce that goes something like this: “It’s easy. Just install it and it practically runs itself.” And to be fair — it can feel that way at first. Until you decide to sell something digital. Then you discover that “runs itself” actually…