Author: Laura Fry

  I ordered Michelle Boyd’s book weeks ago – just about the time my health roller coaster took off on another loop around the course.  And then, the election, which manages to take up whatever brain power I had left.  And won’t be over until next week when the final voting day happens and the…

  The photo isn’t a very good one but it is a silk jacket I wove the fabric for (and had a friend sew it).  I wove it for the ANWG conference here in 1995.  I took the conference logo and messed around with it.  The warp was hand dyed (by moi) in a spectrum…

  One of the reasons I started this blog was that I hadn’t died in 2008.  It was, in part, a celebration of the fact that I was still here, still weaving.  But it was a struggle between this body and me, and since I ‘process’ much of what I am going through by writing…

  The word ‘fallow’ is not one that ‘we’ use much these days.  But it is something that human beings ignore when they should be paying attention. When a field is ‘fallow’, it is not a ‘waste’.  A field is left ‘fallow’ in order to allow it to ‘rest’.  Sometimes the farmer will plant a…

 I Voted. When I was in high school, I benefited from having young and enthusiastic teachers.  Social Studies class became particularly interesting because they covered ‘current events’ and – at the time – Canada was going through some tempestuous times.  We learned about the history of my own country as the basis of understanding what…

  Yesterday I finished pressing the towels from the warp I wet finished over the past few days.   As I pressed, I got to see the cloth from different angles from what I usually view cloth from, and I was reminded – yet again – that cloth can have a 3D effect, especially when weaving…

  This week has several ‘Schrodinger” days in it.  Right now I am waiting until it is time to head to the hospital and get the injection in my back.  And then – hopefully – tomorrow I might hear about the new drug I have asked to try – even though it is off even…