Heatherly Walker/Yarn Yenta’s book! And from Robin:  an alternative view point on the Walk Out Not Up movement.  In most cases of child on child violence, it is the bully that kills their classmate and that is generally true for the young school shooters as well.   Even in Columbine,   The movement (along with reading the book ) is much better for bullying.  from Anna G: Scrappy Quilts even some quilts with 1x1 in squares! and Fun with  No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday. (my new fave quote) CLAUDIO Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world. . .

The Thank you John in Indiana - The Kitchen is not clean until Dish Rag is scalded! - Journal of Medicinal Food:  "...In conclusion, these RCTs provide scientific evidence that supports the efficacy of turmeric extract (about 1000 mg/day of curcumin) in the treatment of arthritis. ...more rigorous and larger studies are needed to confirm the therapeutic efficacy of turmeric for arthritis."     (Daily James W., Yang Mini, and Park Sunmin. Journal of Medicinal Food.Aug 2016.717-729. ) And it may help slow skin cancer!? (Cancer, August 15, 2005, Volume 104) Golden Milk , , (and ), June Lillies are Narcissus (variety of daffodil) Snuffy colored

Crafty-cleaning and has products and a zillion tips, and all the listener emails: Lex recommended pet aquarium limescale remover (like for turtle or lizard tanks), of Lavendar Sheep recommends 1:1 white vinegar to dawn - heat the vinegar to mix (the only time you’ll need to heat it), put both in a spray bottle, shake, spray, leave 30 min, scrub, rinse. Here’s the evil hard water. Sigh… Question - does this have anything to do with cleaning (ahem): the golden milk / turmeric thingy. Whatsup with that? NOTES FROM LAST WEEK “looks like a Gimlet” By Wikipedia user Saintswithin - en.wikipedia.org, Public Domain,   Now I lay me down to sleep - originally published in the , Calvinist, compiled by Benjamin Harris, 1683 The REAL Captivity Narrative: Melissa @ Peace Weavers - Traditional Handweaving

—skunk cabbage By Sue Sweeney. - . Archived at , , —“looks like a Gimlet” By Wikipedia user Saintswithin - en.wikipedia.org, Public Domain, — —Now I lay me down to sleep - originally published in the , Calvinist, compiled by Benjamin Harris, 1683 —Peep of Day series ( ) —The REAL Captivity Narrative:  

. Do it! The “real” Avonlea is Cavendish. by Laurence Sterne, the source for “Scope of Imagination”. A is the mattress (ish). Candle extinguisher—here is a “snuffer” and here Scrooge is using a GIANT one to “put out” the Ghost of Christmas Past:   - the taking-things-literally gal (watch at 1:30 and especially 2:12) or watch her .

  Chapters 1-2 Anne of Green Gables Ms Rachel is Surprised & Matthew is Surprised (too!) sort of the root of the Irishman joke (similar to this one: Paddy is in jail. Guard looks in his cell and sees him hanging by his feet.  “What the hell you doing?” he asks. “Hanging myself” Paddy replies.  “It should be around your neck” says the Guard. “I know” says Paddy “but I couldn’t breathe”.) Reminds me of the stories we learned about from History of the (very dated and now offensive) term Book Talk @ 9:31 : plain or twilled fabric with wool weft and cotton or linen warp that is used especially for warm shirts, skirts, and pajamas (Early 19th century: apparently an alteration of woolsey in linsey-woolsey). Fave quote of today’s chapters: people laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?" "Well now, that seems reasonable," said Matthew.  

At last! Lucy Maud Montgomery!  - you can learn more about premium audio here. - you can sign up for premium audio at link, PLUS doing so from here means you can listen to the free podcast on the app AND access the premium audio on the site and the app. THIS is the ONLY way to get premium audio on the app.  - you can get free and premium audio here - for now. I am still researching to see if it's such a good deal for you. 1-206-350-1642 - listener call-in line - you can click on "contact" from within the app to be put through to this line. Lucy Maud Montgomery - born Clifton, , November 30, 1874 LMM was of Scottish descent! (PLUS--CraftLit! Scotland Tour! June 17-26, 2018 - ) Beautiful LMM with pen in hand and hair just so: And with a twinkle in her eye: And LMM in the studio and In The Nature (a la Anne): (to get more of the Puritan/Calvinist info) If you haven't seen the Wrinkle in Time trailer, Info on the1985 Info on the newer, "darker"

Step into the enchanting world of one of literature's most beloved characters and join us as we embark on a journey through the pages of the timeless classic, Anne of Green Gables! So, prepare to be transported to the breathtaking landscapes of Avonlea, to encounter the unforgettable characters, and to be captivated by the indomitable spirit of Anne Shirley!

Opening song downloaded in 2006 as podsafe music: DISCLAIMER This bonus episode of CraftLit likely belongs at the end of , but since the inciting incidents didn’t occur for several years, I’m putting it here, but with a warning - language and subject matter are NOT what you will find in the other 475± episodes of CraftLit. This is NOT an episode to have a first-listen with your kids in the car. To that end, I am well aware that there will be parts of this episode that will anger you. If you’ve listened to CraftLit for awhile you’ll know that I often hold information or comments for the end—it’s the theater side of me, wanting to book-end these essays so that they are dramatically and structurally consistent. But I’d be an idiot if I didn’t know you would have responses while you listen. I encourage you to use the recording app on your phone and switch back and forth between listening and responding so you have your thoughts in order. Then, when you’re done, you have the choice to send me the complete file at [email protected] OR you can call our listener line at 1-206-350-1642 and speak your mind. And, finally, You might be expecting me to deal with this topic through the lens of classic literature. With one exception, that will not happen in this episode. This is personal. This is nothing more than my thoughts—a culmination of 31 years of my experiences and thoughts—on this topic. We have faced many characters in complicated relationships where we in the modern world have very different responses regarding issues of consent. are not unknown to us. However, you may wish to hunt down the post by David Wong at (of all places) Cracked.com called . It’s both funny and upset-stomach-inducing—and written by a guy for whom I’d like to buy a drink if he’s ever in Eastern PA. 3:10 Before I begin, there is a transcription of this over at CraftLit.com/476. Included there are links out to everything I mention that is link-to-able. 3:51 Hello, The number of times I’ve been compelled to do something like this could be counted on a hand inside a very nicely knitted mitten, but , and comment threads I’ve been reading have pushed me to try—at least for we sane people—to end it. To begin at the beginning, my husband pointed out a month-or-so ago that every woman he knew had put a #MeToo hashtag on their feed. Sadly, none surprised him. However, he asked why I hadn’t. I was the only one he knew of who could have but didn’t. And I didn’t. 4:30 I mentioned–very briefly–my past a few years back on CraftLit and I left it there. For a long time it had defined part of me, but then I got married, then I had a son, then I was teaching HS the day we were evacuated from the tip of an island off the coast of North America when a plane tried to drop a building on us, then I had another son, then I became a podcaster, an author, a speaker—I outgrew simple definitions. There is nothing simple about the conversation that is swirling around us right now—and I say that as both a #MeToo and as a mother of young men. The mother of some rather justifiably nervous young men. 5:15 When I was teaching HS in NYC I learned something very important that I need to share with you: I knew nothing about being white. I mean, yes, if you’ve heard “Stupid Shit White People Say” you’ve probably laughed–just like me. Ha Ha. I get it. What I mean is I knew nothing about what being white looks like to anyone who isn’t. You might remember the spectacularly biting SNL clip of complete with what happens in the white world when anyone of color leaves the room. It’s hilarious. And it’s not. One of the most revealing conversations I ever had was with a class of recidivist freshmen. These 20 kids were massively in the minority at our very-college-focused NYC Public School. This was not their first time in Freshman English. It might have been their third or fourth, to be honest. Trying to figure out how to get them to want to strengthen their skills was more difficult than any teaching job I’ve had before or since and I probably failed to help at least half of them. But they sure taught me. I was particularly lucky because my students had learned that they could trust me—at least it seemed to believe they could. I sure hoped they could. This was well into my time in NYC and it was also at the height of the people-getting-jumped-for-their-Air-Jordan’s scare and we’d been working our way through annotating a NYTimes article on the topic in preparation for them to practice writing formal letters, like they might have to write to a landlord someday, only we were using a letter to the editor of the paper as a practice run. As we annotated copies and separated fact from opinion (and noted where we’d need more facts to support our claims) one boy made a comment about how there was nothing wrong with jumping someone for their shoes—as long as that someone was white. As the only white person in the room at the time, I asked for clarification. Near as I can recall the conversation went something like this: Me: Wait, what? Student: Well, you know, Miss. I mean, it’s mad wrong for me to jump someone like… Tyrik here (laughter) because I know it’s not like he can just, you know, go out and buy new Jordans. (“awwwwww”s) Me: Okaaaayyy… Student: But…you know, Miss. If you need a new pair, you’ll get a new pair. Me: Wait. Are you telling me that I should be able to buy a new pair of Jordan’s because I’m white? (Laughter) Student: (clearly baffled by my response and the laughter) Um…yeah… Me: George, how much money do you think I make??? Student: (still baffled) I don’t know…like…white people money? Me: (laughing) That’s an income classification? Student: (backpedaling) You know, Miss? Right? Like, you make enough. You can, you know, buy…stuff you want. Me: George, I’m a teacher. We don’t get rich being teachers. We get promised decent health care, and retirement, in exchange for not getting rich—almost enough to pay rent and eat. I’m not rich. Seriously. These shoes I got at Payless. I went on to break down how much I brought home every two weeks and what my monthly expenses were. My disposable money at the end of the month was about $30. The rustling in the room got louder as we worked our way towards that fact—a fact that the students brought up again and again in class when people made assumptions or worked off of stereotypes. 9:20 As different as my life was from George’s view of All White Folks—his understanding of the differences of how white folks live from the people he grew up with in his neighborhood wasn’t that far off. Things I saw our students do that I—at first—thought were SO self-defeating, so working against their best interests — were, often as not, learned survival skills. We had a whole cross section of girls who got to school late every day. Same amount of late Every Day. Why? Their moms and dads both worked, often more than one job and frequently in overlapping shifts which meant one adult was still on the way home from a late shift on public transit early in the morning when the other was leaving for an early shift. But there’s a baby. Baby has to go to daycare. Affordable daycare starts at the same time as school. Solution? The oldest daughter is responsible and she’ll be able to make up the work she misses at her school. Have her take the baby to daycare then go to school. Someone else will pick the baby up so the oldest daughter can stay late and get help, library access, or just a quiet place to study. Win-win. But it took several years for me to learn that. All the kids knew how it worked. One girl was shocked I’d needed to ask her, because duh, of course that’s what was going on. Opening the door and coming into class late wasn’t anything she needed to apologize or make excuses for, because it was just so obvious. Except it wasn’t. To me. Just like I thought wasn’t obvious. 11:18 Just like what published in the NYT about the charges of sexual misconduct about him. H is thoughts weren’t obvious either. It’s not about race. It’s not about beauty. It’s not about sex. It’s not necessarily about gender. It is all about power. 11:49 And even people with power never feel like they are the one in power. There’s always someone richer, better, stronger, meaner, more ruthless, more threatening, better looking than they are. So if you try to have the conversation with them as though they’ve got more power than you they’ll just “what about THAT person” and blow off everything you say. John Oliver did a lovely piece on - which is also known as the . Back to Louis CK. 12:40 I don’t know if, in the maelstrom of sexual predator reveals you read or heard his whole statement, but you should know what he said. All of it. Because I think it should be the gold standard by which we judge responses to this issue. Allow me to give you a smidgen of context for why I believe that. 13:00 In a nutshell, Louis CK struggled on his way up as a standup comedian. A lot. He and Mark Maron have spoken about their enemyship and their friendship and how the difficulties they encountered paralleled each other but how they ultimately found success—albeit in relatively different areas. I guarantee you, if a female comedian heard me say that she would have snorted. Quadruple that snort if she’s a female comedian of color. Because…seriously. It’s just so obvious. Sidestepping that rabbit hole for a moment and going back to Louis CK—it’s important to know that Louis CK - like George Clooney and Samuel L Jackson have famously said – Louis CK didn’t have success handed to him on a silver platter when they were young. He ate his share of cup-o-noodles and did a fair bit of couch surfing is what I’m saying. So If an up-and-coming female comedian had said to him, “Geez, it’s been rough going…” he’d be likely to say—justifiably—“Oh My God, I KNOW. There was this one time when I…” not necessarily as a way of him purposefully dismiss her struggles, but very likely thinking that he’s speaking to an equal or—at least—to someone on her way to being a professional equal. How that convo might have been perceived by the woman he was speaking to would very likely have sounded very different. He learned—the hard way—about power disparities. 15:05 We can learn from him that power disparities are invisible to those in power UNLESS they are given a reason to stop, back up, think, ask questions, sit with it awhile, and then find the cojones to say “mea culpa” and own their error. And we—the rest of the public, the couch-sitting judge and jury to these people’s social falls—we have to learn to allow them to do that. We say that we want people to own it. We say we want people to say they’re sorry, but when they do we’re as likely to attack them for that as we are for them denying everything. And that’s too bad because we know everyone makes mistakes. But it’s very rare that we see people who are actually evil—Goebbels and Himmler and Pol Pot and King Leopold evil—stalk other people to try to ruin their lives. Even the guy who assaulted me wasn’t evil like that. He was a privileged jerk who thought he deserved everything—and that included females—because, my God woman, why WOULDN’T you want him, Right? He had money, he was smart (smart enough to get away with it more than once…until he broke his girlfriend’s collarbone) he (thought he was) good looking…I mean, duh. Anyone who accused him of something that unsavory must just be bitter…or a bitch…or frigid…or a feminist. Because, I mean, who are they going to believe? Right? 16:40 At this point, you need to go listen to Ehren Zigler’s ShakespeareSunday.libsyn.com episode from Nov 12, 2017 entitled: Who Will Believe You? When you’re done, come back and pick up here. 17:10 Welcome back! So what have we learned? Sadly, that not much has changed since 1604, or, more accurately, nothing much has changed since… forever. But that isn’t helpful. Because I’ve raised two wonderful boys, one of whom isn’t unnerved about going to college on his own or of a possible terrorist attack nearly as much as he is of putting a girl in a position where he thinks she wants him to kiss her only to find that he’d misread the situation and is now labeled a predator. And the way things are flying around now, I don’t know that he’s wrong to feel this way. 18:02 If we can’t tell the difference between and adult predator of girls and young women—a predator so well-known that a mall barred his entrance—and a man finally “getting it” and owning what he did wrong, if we can’t respect a man taking ownership of what he did wrong and vowing to try to do better (knowing full well that history has it’s eyes on him) then my son is right. He should be scared—or at least very very nervous. But that’s the wrong lesson we’re supposed to be learning. If theater, TV, and film have taught us anything, it’s that bad things happen when people don’t say what they should say. If real life has taught us anything, it’s that people can get punished for saying the right thing to the wrong person and vice versa. If literature has taught us anything, it’s that we can’t learn, grow, and become better happier people if we don’t listen to Atticus Finch: we need to walk a mile in the other person’s shoes. 16:48 I’ve been talking a lot about Louis CK’s statement, and before I read it to you, I do want to make it clear: I know that for years Louis CK denied all of these allegations. I’m also aware that in Hollywood he has a manager and an agent and it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if, (a) they were male, and (b), if they advised all of their clients who found themselves in situations like this to deny everything. Why? Because it’s been a very, very, effective tactic. Let me read it to you now because you have to hear it—all of it—for this last bit to make sense. I want to address the stories told to The New York Times by five women named Abby, Rebecca, Dana, Julia who felt able to name themselves and one who did not. These stories are true. At the time, I said to myself that what I did was O.K. because I never showed a woman my dick without asking first, which is also true. But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your dick isn’t a question. It’s a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly. I have been remorseful of my actions. And I’ve tried to learn from them. And run from them. Now I’m aware of the extent of the impact of my actions. I learned yesterday the extent to which I left these women who admired me feeling badly about themselves and cautious around other men who would never have put them in that position. I also took advantage of the fact that I was widely admired in my and their community, which disabled them from sharing their story and brought hardship to them when they tried because people who look up to me didn’t want to hear it. I didn’t think that I was doing any of that because my position allowed me not to think about it. There is nothing about this that I forgive myself for. And I have to reconcile it with who I am. Which is nothing compared to the task I left them with. I wish I had reacted to their admiration of me by being a good example to them as a man and given them some guidance as a comedian, including because I admired their work. The hardest regret to live with is what you’ve done to hurt someone else. And I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I brought on them… I’ve brought pain to my family, my friends, my children and their mother. I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen. Thank you for reading. 19:25 When I was a kid, Atticus’ lessons seemed simple: I could usually figure out what I needed to, I could find the empathy in me that I needed to, just by imagining myself in someone elses’ position. That still works. Sometimes. But teaching in NYC taught me that imagination wasn’t enough. I had to actually get to know people who at a first—very superficial—glance were so different from me, only to find that our middle class upbringings, our relationships with our loving and supportive parents, our thoughts about love and life and career were all so similar as to be indistinguishable from one another. Until you factored in chances for success. One of my bosses in Hollywood told me a story once. He had an African American best friend in college, he’s Jewish. He laughingly told me how they used to have “woe is me” competitions, racking up all the ways people’s prejudices and unfair treatment had frustrated them. I was young and naïve and I asked who won. He stopped laughing and said, “we ended the competition when my friend pointed out that if the two of us were walking down the street, people might guess I was Jewish…but they knew he was Black.” In competitions like that, no one wins. Not even the people in power. 21:00 One more illustration In 2016 there was an article I read that profiled various voters. One was a tentative Trump supporter in the upper midwest. I’ll call him Frank, for lack of a better memory. He wasn’t comfortable with much about Trump personally, but it was better than what he’d personally experienced from the left. He’d served in a war, he’d come back, he’d gotten a job, he’d raised a family, he paid his taxes, he started his own business. It wasn’t easy, but he worked his tuchus off and got his kids into college—like you do—and then one of his daughters came home from college with a boyfriend. At his own Thanksgiving table, this embodiment of the American dream, Frank, was served a plateful of stereotypes from a 20 year old kid—you must be a bigot, classist, uneducated, small-minded, evangelical, gay-bashing, woman-hating, immigrant-fearing, gun-loving, war-mongering idiot. Frank was, as would many of us be, speechless. And enraged. Here he’d done what he was supposed to do. He started a business. He supported his family. He paid his taxes. He loved his daughters and wanted them to be happy, with bright futures—that’s why did did all the things he did. Not because it was fun. Not because he was following his bliss. Because It Is What You Do when you love your family. JUST like my student’s parents worked many jobs and paid plenty in taxes to provide a home and futures for their families. But Frank didn’t have anyone to yell at—he couldn’t yell at his daughter’s boyfriend—no matter how much the twerp deserved it. because a gentleman doesn’t do something like that. He didn’t have a place to go where he could protest this unfair treatment. He didn’t have anyone to protest against. And yes, there’s no question, Frank didn’t see all of the benefits that being white and male afforded him. Again, to those with less power, his power is very obvious. To him, all he saw was how much work he put into making a good life for his family and his kids. So Frank was unhappy. But he didn’t much like colleges. And he really didn’t much like the Left. And it’s kind of hard to blame him. 26:45 But I can’t help but wish that in moments like that, the Franks of the world could find a way to step back and calmly ask, “Wait, but why? Why do you assume that about me?” And then listen. Because if Frank listened to the Why, there’s a good chance that the more he heard and the more specific his questions got, the more he would expose the flaws in the stereotypes—and the more likely the Twerp would learn something he hasn’t learned at home—respecting your elders has nothing to do with deferring to them. It’s all about listening to them. Everyone does the best they can do with what they’ve got. No one sets out to be a failure or hateful—. And we are—as Madeline L’Engle and and a zillion other authors have noted—are always afraid of the unknown. And that’s where our current situation gets dangerous. Because if we can’t hear the difference between Louis CK’s —excuse the term—manning up to explain his actions and own his mistakes —NOT Yeah, I’m remorseful BECAUSE I GOT CAUGHT - — But if we can’t hear a cogent and serious reflection on how these things can happen and why men simply don’t see it, then we also won’t see the danger inherent in someone who blames the victim (or shockingly blames religious bias) and denies any responsibility for their actions. And that’s the way we perpetuate all of this. 28:35 To be crystal clear: I am not talking about the more clear-cut violent crimes. I am however, pointing out that as long as we talk about sexual harassment and rape and serial pedophilia as though they’re all sex crimes, the longer we’ll be missing the point and not solving the problem - and we’ll have perpetuated a false equivalency. The assault I suffered was a very different kind of crime from the assault survived by one of the young women in a support group I eventually attended. She was attacked getting out of her car, with her laundry basket, in sweats, no makeup, hair piled on her head. She was threatened at knife-point. She was terrorized. Her case seems like a simple and clear-cut criminal assault. She still had people—often official-type people and not just men—ask her if she actually saw the knife. Or imply that she was asking for it—because she was blonde, tan, and pretty. I, of course, have never found sweats and no makeup that appealing, but hey, what do I know? I’m not a rapist. 29:52 The betrayal that she and I felt, at being assaulted, at having our body touched by someone to whom we did not give permission, was the same. The betrayal we experienced at having people who should have believed us who should have been on our side, who should have helped, or should have at the very least, have tried to help us make sure that the perpetrator never hurt anyone like that again—the betrayal we experienced at having people who should have believed us walk away or turn their backs—was the same. The crime itself was different. Which is kind of the point. The chances of the guy who assaulted her being surprised by being accused of rape is pretty slim. You go out of your way to stalk someone, beat them, hold a knife to their throat, tear their clothes, and force them to have sex with you—I think you probably know that’s called rape. I’m talking about the squishier territory. The “I didn’t know” vs the “yeah, well you should’ve known” moments. The places I’ve been talking about where purpose and perception are blurred and power, career, livelihood, and reputation are the elephants in the corners of the room, standing there all but invisible to the person with the power. We have to learn to hear the choked and sometimes heartbroken “I didn’t know” for what it is: the sudden exposure of a power disparity that was always there but largely invisible and a cultural disparity that I’ve never seen explained as well as was done this last week by . 31:48 There is an important lesson, I believe, in watching someone accused of something like this, especially a public figure—with or without proof provided—say, “Oh my God, I don’t remember this, but for God’s sake, begin an ethics investigation, because we can’t just sweep these things under the rug.” There have to be standards. There are norms of behavior we need to respect. Because that kind of behavior—owning your mistake, allowing justice to run its course (with the belief that justice will, in fact, be just)—that is what we teach our children. That is what we tell them the world is like. So we have to act like it, too. Because the kids are watching us. There’s also an important warning in watching someone accused of something like this deny it ever happened, deny video footage, deny responsibility, or, most heinously, blame the victim—because as Louis CK and James Comey both demonstrated this year—the person in power does not think they have an unfair advantage. The person with less power, however, knows it. 33:10 It’s true in economics, it’s true in geopolitical conflict, it’s true throughout history, and it’s true when it comes to interpersonal relationships—those on the lower side of the power scale know a lot more about the higher end than the higher end knows about them. That’s why America strides around the planet like a big teenage bully, not caring—not needing to care—about how it’s perceived. Since WWII America’s had the power. I hope, that when the world shifts away from that, we can lose that bravado and learn how to deal with not being on top gracefully. I might be delusional. But I have to be hopeful because of my sons. 33:54 I don’t know that I can see a way through to a happy ending to the current spate of accusations. I’m not an apologist for the men being accused. I do think there’s a scale of egregiousness, and legality. However. I had a boss who once joked about me wearing a French Maid’s uniform at work. I laughed. I thought it was the stupidest thing I’d ever heard. He laughed too, and we had a really spectacular working relationship for nearly three years. Did he ever touch me? Not once. Would he be in serious trouble nowadays for making the French Maid joke. I’m afraid he would be. Even in 1989 he might have been if I’d taken him seriously. But I listened. And I watched him. And I heard that it wasn’t a threat. Or a requirement. It wasn’t even a legitimate or realistic request. It was a joke. No bathrobes were involved. No hotel room meetings—not that there couldn’t have been. This was Hollywood. But I’ve been lucky to work for and with honorable men my whole life. Karmic payback for having crossed paths with a sociopath in college, perhaps. I like to think that I took what happened to me and learned some valuable lessons from it. Like trusting myself to know when it’s time to go without worrying about being told I was spoiling everyone’s fun, trusting my gut to know that what I was walking into was not a safe situation—without worrying that I’d be told I was being hysterical, and by not worrying about being called a bitch if I weeded out backstabbers and betrayers from my life. 35:35 One of the saddest things I’ve heard this year was James Comey’s testimony when he talked about begging the Attorney General to stay in the room—to not leave him alone with the president—because he knew power disparity there was real and he didn’t want to be alone without witnesses in case the President said something that would be either Illegal or putting pressure on him in a way that could lead to things that were illegal. The kind of betrayal James Comey experienced—watching the Attorney General walk out of that room—is exactly the kind of betrayal women have felt when left alone with someone they know is unsafe. It is the closing of the door that is the most terrifying. At that point there is almost nothing you can do to win. Society will label you with one negative no matter which way you come out of that room. You can either be a frigid bitch or you can be a whore. What you can’t be is deaf. 36:45 You can’t be deaf to the same kinds of stories coming from other people in similar situations—both women and men. Atticus would be disappointed. And slut shaming is done by women at least as often as men. Ask my dorm roommates. They got to watch it up close. But we—especially we—women have to be the first one on the scene pointing out that nothing we’ve heard yet—Not One Incident—has been about one person being attracted to someone who Just Wasn’t That Into Him. None of this has been about sexual attraction or chemistry or a date gone bad. It’s been about powerful people knowingly or unknowingly using sex as a threat. The threat is “I get to do what I want to do because I’m the one who controls—or at the very least, can affect—your future.” Some threats like that are completely unknowingly wielded. Because those in power know less about how that power is perceived than the people without the power. There are the unknowing wielders, and then there are the others. But how would a guy know which camp he’s in—really? He’s not a rapist in an alley with a knife. We know those guys are predators. We know they’re the bad guys. These guys are wearing suits! When in a position of power there are few people brave enough to be . Instead, powerful people tend to gravitate to those who agree—or seem to agree—with them until the world they live in shows them in no uncertain terms every hour of every day that everyone wants to do what they want them to do. So if everyone wants what you want them to do, how could kissing or touching this woman who knows you—how could that be any sort of violation? Because obviously, she wanted it. How could she not? 30:31 CraftLit listeners are some of the most amazing people I’ve met in my entire life…. People who care about words meaning what they mean. When we look at the language and rhetoric being used in all of these arguments, debates, and statements, help the people around you to take a step back and look at the language being used. We can tell so much—and in situations like this, that language is the only in-road we have to following Atticus’ advice. Because we probably can’t imagine what it’s like to be Harvey Weinstein. We might not want to even if we could. But is it easy to understand how an overweight, schlubby guy who grew up overweight and schlubby, might see getting anything he wants is payback for years of humiliation and being ignored by women? Looking at the way he defends himself, yeah. I can imagine that that is exactly what’s going through his head. Does it make what he did any less reprehensible? Heck no. The crime is the crime is the crime. A rose by any other name… It just means that solving the problem—helping him come to terms with what the problem is in the first place, is a different conversation. Violence, whether psychological or physical, that involves sex or sexuality, is never about sex or sexuality. It’s about power. And the sooner we can be honest with each other about these kinds of crimes and how we react to them—because our reactions are just as complicated, I would wager, as the reactions of the guys who’ve been outed—the sooner we can heal and move forward. And maybe—if we’re lucky—not see this happen any more. A girl can dream. But mostly, I hope that my friends and colleagues who are raising daughters are raising girls to be able to tell the difference between an honorable young man who does not have their best interests at heart. For the sake of my wonderful, beautiful sons, I hope that, as much as we’ve worked to make them kind, honorable, happy, good people, the same is being done by the fathers and mothers who are raising their daughters. 41:48 Because honorable people, embodied for my entire conscious life by my mother, my father, and Atticus Finch, are people who may be unaware that they’ve done something wrong, but when it’s brought to their attention respond by working to understand what went wrong and correct that wrong in whatever way they can. Dishonorable people are ones who may be unaware they’ve done something wrong, and when it’s brought to their attention—simply don’t care. I think we’ve seen several examples of both types of responses in the past year. And just like me with my students in New York, I didn’t know what I didn’t know about being white—until I had a chance to listen. Until I had someone brave enough to talk to me, honestly, and without anger. I got to be Frank, in a safe place where I was able to ask questions and—because I was safe, and not being attacked—able to hear the answers I was able to hear and understand the “what I should have knowns…because it’s just so obvious.” When it still wasn’t obvious. To me. Back then. Things I couldn’t have seen without help because you just don’t see the same view as everyone else when you’re the one on top. Literature is there to show us how to grow, how to act, and often as not how NOT to act and grow. That is one of the reasons why education, specifically in the humanities, is so vital. These are the reasons I’ve been hosting CraftLit for coming up on 12 years. I promise, on Thursday, December 14th, I’ll be back to sharing inside jokes with you and Dickens and the holiday spirit. But today I thank you for listening. And I hope you know that I’ve given you our call-in number for a reason. I’ve never shied away from reading emails or playing audio from you when you’ve disagreed with me and I won’t do it now. I also know from our long sojourn together that unlike the rest of the internet, CraftLit listeners respond to each other with kindness and compassion—you are my Finch-Family Community. You are the ones who prove to me, over and over again, that the world can be a good and safe and happy place. I know that once again, I’ll point to our online forums as The Only Place on the Internet Where People Still Have Manners When Discussing Difficult Things. Because you always listen. And think. And research. And share. And speak—always with compassion and thought and care. I’ve tried to do the same for you today. I hope I have. I like to believe that classic fiction and the people who love it can help us avoid a world run by or The Commanders in or the assassins in the fourth part of *. I believe—and I will continue to believe—that Humanity can do better than that. I have to believe that. Because like you, I love my children. And I want them, and yours, to have safe and happy lives. (This is the printing I read in school. No idea if it’s better or worse than others. It’s just the one I know) The FUN side of CraftLit returns on December 14, 2017 with the First Day of CraftLit?stories to light the holidays.

|Our Episode Sponsor is… | cards (starts at 5:03) Unlock special pricing for 5 or more cards AND get free shipping on any order by going to . AND you can to win one of THREE cards which I will get to you PRONTO so you can send them to a special someone for the holidays. Here’s an Instagram post from me from nearly a year ago, touting the awesomeness of LovePop cards:    A post shared by Heather Ordover -CraftLit host (@hordover) on Feb 16, 2017 at 4:11pm PST And because is awesome, I have THREE cards available to you. To enter the giveaway you can visit the , or the . | BOOKTALK starts at 15:50 |. More   I’ve been trying to go in chronological order, so thus far our stories have been: Episode 1: Man with Two Left Feet (1917), The Pessimist, Extricating Young Gussie (1915/1917) Episode 2: The Unbidden Guest (1916/1919) Charles Kingsley Farewell: http://www.bartleby.com/360/1/143.html Old Oaken Bucket: https://youtu.be/9YgtCfE-DMk history there, and more here: https://youtu.be/KtKg8kvDs-s music box version: https://youtu.be/izeZiWszKbc clean 1914 version: Episode 3: “Leave It to Jeeves” (1916) was rewritten and reprinted as “The Artistic Career of Corky” in Carry on, Jeeves (1925). (Today you’ll hear part of the first Jeeves story) To get the Premium Audio you have three choices. Which you pick will be determined by how you like to listen: gets you downloadable audio files from right here at CraftLit.com (good for mp3 users and those who like to listen on their desktop computer) gets you gets you access to the premium feed on the CraftLit app (free  •  •  •  app, or (which is native on iOS devices with OS8, ),  the or the .) is our Jeeves reader moving forward and I cannot be more excited about that! The Importance of Being Earnest is definitely in the works…but not until next Spring. In January 2018,  will be starting on CraftLit and  will be starting for our Premium feed. Very excited about both of those. Lot’s of good bits in there. And CRAFTLIT IS ON SPOTIFY! More about : The Boston Globe – November 2015 BostInno – August 2015 Billboard Music Awards – May 2017 Shark Tank Update – May 2017 Billboard Music Awards Video – May 2017   Let's Communicate! Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email (though it won't have your name on it). Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via Click here to subscribe via You can also subscribe via Or subscribe through the app (see below) | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for or or smartphones and tablets (you can call or straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our !  

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|Our Episode Sponsor is… | HelloFresh.com (starts at 9:46) For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit hellofresh.com and enter promo code craftlit30 | Bits and Bobs | , | SCOTLAND | , , , Holiday Vacations Dianne’s number 1-800-826-2266, : Keyword "Craft" | BOOKTALK starts at 15:50 |. Other stories on CraftLit: The Shadows The Day Boy and the Night Girl Our Next Book: Anne of Green Gables! Let's Communicate! Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email (though it won't have your name on it). Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via Click here to subscribe via You can also subscribe via Or subscribe through the app (see below) | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for or or smartphones and tablets (you can call or straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our !  

End of The Count of Monte Cristo (I know!?! 70 whole episodes to pull this sucker off!) | SCOTLAND | Various Stirling Castle sites , , , , and our hotel, the Dunkeld House Hotel and Spa (!) . Dianne’s Video The History of Stirling Castle Monument drone pix 1st half of . Holiday Vacations Dianne’s number 1-800-826-2266, : Keyword "Craft" | BOOKTALK starts at xx:xx |. Let's Communicate! Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email (though it won't have your name on it). Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via Click here to subscribe via You can also subscribe via Or subscribe through the app (see below) | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for or or smartphones and tablets (you can call or straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our ! | OUR PREMIUM BOOK | [ Sign into your membership account in the sidebar at CraftLit.com or . If you aren't a premium listener yet and want downloading-only audio, you can  hosted right here on CraftLit.com (i.e., not on the app, not streaming premium audio, not Patreon-hosted premium audio) Want a button?      

  | BOOKTALK starts at 17:33 |. The old text I mentioned about Marius & The Gracci the man and (And Rousseau’s grandfather was a watchmaker and made ) | SCOTLAND |  (1810) is a narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott. , the man Filmed versions of Rob Roy: , , . Loch Katrine: Heather on Hill Pic: And, for fun, Heather on a Tor (1989): And Ah, Jamie: 1st half of . . Holiday Vacations Dianne’s number 1-800-826-2266, : Keyword "Craft" Let's Communicate! Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email (though it won't have your name on it). Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via Click here to subscribe via You can also subscribe via Or subscribe through the app (see below) | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for or or smartphones and tablets (you can call or straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our ! | OUR PREMIUM BOOK | [ Sign into your membership account in the sidebar at CraftLit.com or . If you aren't a premium listener yet and want downloading-only audio, you can  hosted right here on CraftLit.com (i.e., not on the app, not streaming premium audio, not Patreon-hosted premium audio) Want a button? [ | CRAFTY CHAT | This week, Craftiness comes from our , Katie at and . Go right now! (Or, you know...whenever you have time because God knows we're all super busy. Just know the link is here for you when you're ready.) . Plus on how to get the audio you want.  

Helping Puerto Rico As many of you know, Puerto Rico has been devastated by the latest slew of hurricanes, leaving the island without power and making it very difficult to contact loved ones. Here in New Hope I know several families affected by this disaster - so from now until Sunday night *half of anything bought from CraftLit will go to a disaster relief fund for Puerto Rico.* See the link below for details.  Book Notes (12:16) It's no surprise that the end of the book is rapidly approaching. Once the book is a wrap Heather wants to hear your thoughts on the longest book CraftLit has tackled. But if you're a bit behind don't worry - you can still call in with your takeaways once you've finished and Heather will do another "Wrap-up" episode in a month or so if there are more voices to be heard. Call 206-350-1642 | SCOTLAND | I'll be starting my little travelogues after school starts—but to get you started - Holiday Vacations  -  - Dianne’s number 1-800-826-2266, : Keyword "Craft" Dianne's Heeland Coews   Let's Communicate! Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email  (though it won't have your name on it). Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via  Click here to subscribe via  You can also subscribe via  Or subscribe through the app (see below) Plus  on how to get the audio you want. | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for  or  or  smartphones and tablets (you can call or  straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our ! | OUR PREMIUM BOOK | Sign into your membership account in the sidebar at CraftLit.com or . If you aren't a premium listener yet and want downloading-only audio, you can  hosted right here on CraftLit.com (i.e., not on the app, not streaming premium audio, not Patreon-hosted premium audio) Want a button?

Book Notes (02:28) It's no surprise that the end of the book is rapidly approaching. Once the book is a wrap Heather wants to hear your thoughts on the longest book CraftLit has tackled. But if you're a bit behind don't worry - you can still call in with your takeaways once you've finished and Heather will do another "Wrap-up" episode in a month or so if there are more voices to be heard. Call 206-350-1642 | SCOTLAND | I'll be starting my little travelogues after school starts—but to get you started - Holiday Vacations  -  - Dianne’s number 1-800-826-2266, : Keyword "Craft" Dianne's Heeland Coews   Let's Communicate! Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email  (though it won't have your name on it). Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via  Click here to subscribe via  You can also subscribe via  Or subscribe through the app (see below) Plus  on how to get the audio you want. | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for  or  or  smartphones and tablets (you can call or  straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our ! | OUR PREMIUM BOOK | Sign into your membership account in the sidebar at CraftLit.com or . If you aren't a premium listener yet and want downloading-only audio, you can  hosted right here on CraftLit.com (i.e., not on the app, not streaming premium audio, not Patreon-hosted premium audio) Want a button?

Book Talk (8:51) Links Ch 106 [] [] 107 [] []and the [] | Mapcon 2017 | I spent last weekend at the Mid-Atlantic Podcast Conference and had the pleasure of meeting a hotel full of wonderful podcasters. Recording from home can be isolating at times, so it feels great to go out into the wild and meet up with fellow casters to talk about improving our shows and the impact we have on listeners. I've listed a handful of podcasts I encountered at the conference (which I go into more detail about in the episode). Be brave! Find something new to listen to.  --For kids who are Harry Potter Lovers (or soon-to-be HPLs)--going chapter by chapter through the books. Started Sept 1st. --Native American stories (hosts grandmother, 92?) is at the Standing Rock Res. ! And was out at the protests. --pretty much as you’d expect --host interviews politicians on both sides about the GOOD things they are doing. --exactly what you think, hosted by Mark Gillespie. One of the longest running, certainly one of the longest profitable, podcasts out there (out of southern NJ, too!) Fan Theory Podcast --iTunes etc, “everyone’s a fan of something” --always interesting, usually funny, mostly true --discover awesome and unique craft beers with Amanda --my table mate and King of All Media, Harry Duran, hosts this interview show. —Host and water expert Stefan Roots has the loveliest voice conveying some Really Dirty Info —if you have a Funko Pop Collector or just Funko Fans in the house, they now have a podcast to listen to—all for them! Thank you, Teresa! / — Host Mary Nichols is one of my new fave people. Listen most easily here:   Let's Communicate! Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email  (though it won't have your name on it). Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via  Click here to subscribe via  You can also subscribe via  Or subscribe through the app (see below) Plus  on how to get the audio you want. | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for  or  or  smartphones and tablets (you can call or  straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our ! | OUR PREMIUM BOOK | Sign into your membership account in the sidebar at CraftLit.com or . If you aren't a premium listener yet and want downloading-only audio, you can  hosted right here on CraftLit.com (i.e., not on the app, not streaming premium audio, not Patreon-hosted premium audio) Want a button?

Book Notes Heather is on her way to the Mid-Atlantic Podcast Conference! This episode covers chapters 104-105 and features a few reminders in the pre-book talk to make sure you're all caught up. It's no surprise that the end of the book is rapidly approaching. Once the book is a wrap Heather wants to hear your thoughts on the longest book CraftLit has tackled. But if you're a bit behind don't worry - you can still call in with your takeaways once you've finished and Heather will do another "Wrap-up" episode in a month or so if there are more voices to be heard. Call 206-350-1642 | SCOTLAND | I'll be starting my little travelogues after school starts—but to get you started - Holiday Vacations  -  - Dianne’s number 1-800-826-2266, : Keyword "Craft" Dianne's Heeland Coews   Let's Communicate! Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email  (though it won't have your name on it). Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via  Click here to subscribe via  You can also subscribe via  Or subscribe through the app (see below) Plus  on how to get the audio you want. | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for  or  or  smartphones and tablets (you can call or  straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our ! | OUR PREMIUM BOOK | Sign into your membership account in the sidebar at CraftLit.com or . If you aren't a premium listener yet and want downloading-only audio, you can  hosted right here on CraftLit.com (i.e., not on the app, not streaming premium audio, not Patreon-hosted premium audio) Want a button?

Book Notes Heather is back from Germany! She is dropping four chapters this week as we approach the end of the book. Below are the links she mentioned and keep an ear out for a bundle of voicemails at the end of the episode.        | SCOTLAND | I'll be starting my little travelogues after school starts—but to get you started - Holiday Vacations  -  - Dianne’s number 1-800-826-2266, : Keyword "Craft" Dianne's Heeland Coews   Let's Communicate! Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email  (though it won't have your name on it). Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via  Click here to subscribe via  You can also subscribe via  Or subscribe through the app (see below) Plus  on how to get the audio you want. | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for  or  or  smartphones and tablets (you can call or  straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our ! | OUR PREMIUM BOOK | Sign into your membership account in the sidebar at CraftLit.com or . If you aren't a premium listener yet and want downloading-only audio, you can  hosted right here on CraftLit.com (i.e., not on the app, not streaming premium audio, not Patreon-hosted premium audio) Want a button?

| SCOTLAND | I'll be starting my little travelogues after school starts—but to get you started - Holiday Vacations  -  - Dianne’s number 1-800-826-2266, : Keyword "Craft" Dianne's Heeland Coews   Book Notes None! Heather is currently returning from Germany. Wish her some good rest and get to listening!   Let's Communicate! Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email  (though it won't have your name on it). Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via  Click here to subscribe via  You can also subscribe via  Or subscribe through the app (see below) Plus  on how to get the audio you want. | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for  or  or  smartphones and tablets (you can call or  straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our ! | OUR PREMIUM BOOK | Sign into your membership account in the sidebar at CraftLit.com or . If you aren't a premium listener yet and want downloading-only audio, you can  hosted right here on CraftLit.com (i.e., not on the app, not streaming premium audio, not Patreon-hosted premium audio) Want a button?

| SCOTLAND | I'll be starting my little travelogues after school starts—but to get you started - Holiday Vacations  -  - Dianne’s number 1-800-826-2266, : Keyword "Craft" Dianne's Heeland Coews   Book Notes None! Heather is currently jetting over the great Atlantic yonder to Germany. Wish her safe travels (and all of you stay safe out there, too).   Let's Communicate! Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email  (though it won't have your name on it). Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via  Click here to subscribe via  You can also subscribe via  Or subscribe through the app (see below) Plus  on how to get the audio you want. | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for  or  or  smartphones and tablets (you can call or  straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our ! | OUR PREMIUM BOOK | Sign into your membership account in the sidebar at CraftLit.com or . If you aren't a premium listener yet and want downloading-only audio, you can  hosted right here on CraftLit.com (i.e., not on the app, not streaming premium audio, not Patreon-hosted premium audio) Want a button?

| SCOTLAND | I'll be starting my little travelogues after school starts—but to get you started - Holiday Vacations  -  - Dianne’s number 1-800-826-2266, : Keyword "Craft" Dianne's Heeland Coews   Book Notes   None! Heather is absorbing secrets and mysteries from the sea. She'll divulge her discoveries upon her return.    Let's Communicate! Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email  (though it won't have your name on it). Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via  Click here to subscribe via  You can also subscribe via  Or subscribe through the app (see below) Plus  on how to get the audio you want. | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for  or  or  smartphones and tablets (you can call or  straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our ! | OUR PREMIUM BOOK | Sign into your membership account in the sidebar at CraftLit.com or . If you aren't a premium listener yet and want downloading-only audio, you can  hosted right here on CraftLit.com (i.e., not on the app, not streaming premium audio, not Patreon-hosted premium audio) Want a button?

| SCOTLAND | I'll be starting my little travelogues after school starts—but to get you started - Holiday Vacations  -  - Dianne’s number 1-800-826-2266, : Keyword "Craft" Dianne's Heeland Coews   Book Notes Here's the link to the Tristram Shandy summary I mentioned from Shmoops:   Let's Communicate! Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email  (though it won't have your name on it). Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via  Click here to subscribe via  You can also subscribe via  Or subscribe through the app (see below) Plus  on how to get the audio you want. | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for  or  or  smartphones and tablets (you can call or  straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our ! | OUR PREMIUM BOOK | Sign into your membership account in the sidebar at CraftLit.com or . If you aren't a premium listener yet and want downloading-only audio, you can  hosted right here on CraftLit.com (i.e., not on the app, not streaming premium audio, not Patreon-hosted premium audio) Want a button?

461b - Bonus - Interview with Katie at EmbodyFocus.com/bliss

| SCOTLAND | I'll be starting my little travelogues after school starts—but to get you started - Holiday Vacations - - Dianne’s number 1-800-826-2266, : Keyword "Craft" Dianne's Heeland Coews | CRAFTY CHAT | This week, Craftiness comes from our , Katie at and , the "Internal Decluttering" system that focuses your day. Go right now! (Or, you know...whenever you have time because God knows we're all super busy. Just know the link is here for you when you're ready.) ; If you feel pulled in a million directions— in life, on your desk, on your to-do list, in your head— and you don’t know where to turn first. If you’ve got a zillion great ideas but you’re already overwhelmed… you need EmbodyFocus — “Internal Decluttering” for Entrepreneurs or — how to let go of what’s holding you back. EmbodyFocus is your simple, powerful, daily, “internal decluttering” system. Creator Katie Geddes is proud to invite you into this business- and life-changing process. Go to to discover more.  | BOOKTALK starts at 26:32 | In case you wanted to see and hear the Ken's chapter was 22 - when Edmond was at the bar Leghorn (actually, in the . -- Here's the text: Prison had made Edmond prudent, and he was desirous of running no risk whatever. But in vain did he rack his imagination; fertile as it was, he could not devise any plan for reaching the island without companionship. Dantes was tossed about on these doubts and wishes, when the patron, who had great confidence in him, and was very desirous of retaining him in his service, took him by the arm one evening and led him to a tavern on the Via del' Oglio, where the leading smugglers of Leghorn used to congregate and discuss affairs connected with their trade. Already Dantes had visited this maritime Bourse two or three times, and seeing all these hardy free-traders, who supplied the whole coast for nearly two hundred leagues in extent, he had asked himself what power might not that man attain who should give the impulse of his will to all these contrary and diverging minds. This time it was a great matter that was under discussion, connected with a vessel laden with Turkey carpets, stuffs of the Levant, and cashmeres. It was necessary to find some neutral ground on which an exchange could be made, and then to try and land these goods on the coast of France. If the venture was successful the profit would be enormous, there would be a gain of fifty or sixty piastres each for the crew. Let's Communicate! Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email (though it won't have your name on it). Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via Click here to subscribe via You can also subscribe via Or subscribe through the app (see below) Plus on how to get the audio you want. | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for or or smartphones and tablets (you can call or straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our ! | OUR PREMIUM BOOK | Sign into your membership account in the sidebar at CraftLit.com or . If you aren't a premium listener yet and want downloading-only audio, you can  hosted right here on CraftLit.com (i.e., not on the app, not streaming premium audio, not Patreon-hosted premium audio) Want a button?

Dianne's Heeland Coews | SCOTLAND | I'll be starting my little travelogues after school starts—but to get you started - Holiday Vacations - - Dianne’s number 1-800-826-2266, : Keyword "Craft" | CRAFTY CHAT | Nada. But on how to get the audio you want: Sign into your membership account in the sidebar. If you aren't a premium listener yet and want downloading-only audio, you can  hosted right here on CraftLit.com (i.e., not on the app, not streaming premium audio, not Patreon-hosted premium audio) | BOOKTALK starts at The Start! | No so much for the written notes. Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email (though it won't have your name on it).   Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via Click here to subscribe via You can also subscribe via Or subscribe through the app (see below) | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for or or smartphones and tablets (you can call or straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our ! Want a button?    

Dianne's Heeland Coews | SCOTLAND | I'll be starting my little travelogues after school starts—but to get you started - Holiday Vacations - - Dianne’s number 1-800-826-2266, : Keyword "Craft" | CRAFTY CHAT | Nada. But on how to get the audio you want: Sign into your membership account in the sidebar. If you aren't a premium listener yet and want downloading-only audio, you can  hosted right here on CraftLit.com (i.e., not on the app, not streaming premium audio, not Patreon-hosted premium audio) | BOOKTALK starts at The Start! | A couple of fun bits for you: * * * * * Part of the larger     

| SCOTLAND | More on this soon—Hi Kathy!—but to get you started - Holiday Vacations - - Dianne’s number 1-800-826-2266, : Keyword "Craft" | CRAFTY CHAT | Nada. But here's the pdf on how to get the audio you want: (click on image for the bigger PDF) Sign in to your membership account in the sidebar or sign up for your premium audio membership or a downloading-only, premium audio membership hosted  (i.e., not on the app, not streaming premium audio, not Patreon-hosted premium audio) | BOOKTALK starts at 00:50 | Nada this week. Just kick back and enjoy the train wreck.   Book Talk: 00:50

| SCOTLAND | More on this soon, but to get you started Holiday Vacations Dianne’s number 1-800-826-2266, : Keyword "Craft" | CRAFTY CHAT | and the (i.e., not , not ) | BOOKTALK starts at 11:29 | Nada.   Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email (though it won't have your name on it).   Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via Click here to subscribe via You can also subscribe via Or subscribe through the app (see below) | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for or or smartphones and tablets (you can call or straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our !   Want a button?    

| Crafty (Life-saving) Chat | The undisclosed location: & podcasts One of the free & their or get on Amazon () Please feel free to tag episodes or send me tags to add to episodes or if you’re interested in volunteering to add the tags to the episodes . Only for clothing - NOT TO BE PUT ON SKIN or a big ol tank of Bulk instructions for a less wasteful Picaridin spray use: Question: Is it possible to buy a refill for the spray bottle? I do not want to throw the pump in the trash for each bottle I order. Great product Answer: If your going to use multiple bottles of permethrine...this is what i did. I bought a bottle of permethrine 36.8%, sometimes called "permethrine SFR". Then I got a one gallon lawn and garden sprayer. The are about $10 dollars . The just dilute the permethrine to the .5% strength like the sawyer's is. That is half of one percent. Dilute as follows. 1 gallon of water gets 2 ounces of 36.8% permethrine to give you .5% . Sooo much cheaper this way. And your right why buy and throw out all those plastic bottles, Permethrine SFR is available on Amazon. The bottle have a ounce measuring thing built in. Make gallons of the stuff for so little money...Or of course you could buy the 10% permethrine and just dilute that to .5% to make a little less. Or dilute the SFR to 1%...that lasts longer on clothes. Just use 4 ounces of SFR in one gallon (my preference) I treat everything I wear from the waist down, socks and shoes, pants shorts. My wife's clothes too. Hope that helps. see less  By Scott 1953 on May 9, 2014 | Book Talk | 14:46 | Poisoner women: and on the CraftLit.com site.   Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email (though it won't have your name on it).   Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via Click here to subscribe via You can also subscribe via Or subscribe through the app (see below) | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for or or smartphones and tablets (you can call or straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our !   Want a button?    

455 - Swangry! 2:06 BOOKTALK a  () is like a lute. .  "How was it that Dionysius the Tyrant became a schoolmaster? REALLY it was Denys the Younger who was (a tyrant and) expelled from Syracuse in 343BC OR even MORE REALLY it was Dionysius the Younger or Dionysius II (ibid) But Maier wrote a legend about Dionysius II in his book Atalanta Fugiens (1617), where he was shipwrecked at Corinth and—although he lived poorly—he became a teacher. (Um... Yeah...that's supposed to mean poor-but-happy-because-teaching, I think). Pythoness is a female soothsayer or prophetess Proverbs 19:17–`He who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord. New International Bible: 17 Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward them for what they have done. King James: 17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again Kiosk - A small open gazebo or pavilion. - in BUSS Translation "Pavilion" To muffle oars - bandage the parts that fit into the oarlocks Calumny - n. The utterance of maliciously false statements; slander. Sign up for the (infrequent) .  Get the most recent email (though it won't have your name on it).   Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via Click here to subscribe via You can also subscribe via Or subscribe through the app (see below) | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for or or smartphones and tablets (you can call or straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our !   Want a button?        

  CraftyChat This week is JetChat! The (successful!) parchment paper search: Jet has crafty things! Jet has my elusive 2-gallon Ziplocs! Unboxing their awesome packing job. Cold items arrived fresh as daisies! Visit Chapter 76 Book Talk: 6:04   Call in to the voice mail line at 1-206-350-1642 Want a button?        

453 - SuperBig! Sarah in Houston's book   Let me know if helps you navigate the many ways to listen to CraftLit: BOOK TALK Begins at 03:42 (Just in case you’ve hit that point where it’s been mentioned so much you might as well listen to the darn thing!) Ew.   Call in to the voice mail line at 1-206-350-1642 Want a button?    

452 chs 72 - Insulated  Repeat post of (for your sanity): BOOK TALK Begins at 15:43 - NSFW (and Not Safe For Kids) Parade pic of Thing 2: Parade pic of our banner from the air: Below are pics I snapped during a pause on the bridge. Everyone was murmuring about how amazing the view "below us" was. I'd tried several times to get a pic while standing, but couldn't get it until I crouched low. Which do you prefer? Pic 1 or Pic 2? Pic 1 Pic 2 Historic Pride (Because Washington Crossed the Delaware about 5 miles south of here) You can see us—rainbow-faced—in the video (with Thing 2 darting out form under the banner at 1:20-1:53):   Call in to the voice mail line at 1-206-350-1642 Want a button?      

Crafty Chat, etc.   I know "Broccoli Cauliflower Rice Risotto" sounds like the "Department of Redundancy Department"...still, it's accurate. BOOK TALK Begins at 05:03 Chapter 70 Lady in White Dress with Posy of Forget-Me-Nots circa 1830 (A Gorgeous) Camelia Camelias (and a calyx, center bottom - yes, these are silk but it was the best "both sides now" pic I could find).   Chapter 71 Repeat post of (for your sanity): . Want a button?    

Crafty Chat, etc. Winner of Julie Davis’ book: JoAnna R. coming up on BOOK TALK Begins at 8:07 Listen to BJ’s Chapter 68 Magistrate and orator, chancellor of France under Louis XV. Map (below) includes all the Normandy locations. Chapter 69 Abbé and Wilmore’s home are located on this map, too. Is there a Lutheran / Quaker connection? Let me know. The asylum founded by the Count of Pisani at Palermo: and While researching the asylum I saw this Turkish wiki ban Click to Tweet message (if you're so inclined)   Nankeen (Mister Darcy) trousers By Mary Evans - , Public Domain, Spa towns: Cauterets (Pyrenees)](http://www.immobilierbordenave.com/en/station-thermale-cauterets) Want a button?  

Heather's Birthday! This is Justin reporting in. I've hijacked Heather's shownotes so she can gallivant around while taunting wall clocks and wrist watches. Make sure you reach out to her on or and wish her well. I hear each birthday wish will make one of her body's cells immortal. Let's make Heather invincible against the ocean of time! CraftLit forever!   Book Talk Begins at 7:16 Relations Image Mentioned:     Brave New Podcast When: Recording Wednesdays, posting by Friday/CraftLit time (more or less this week!). How and where to listen: - - -   Raffle for Julie’s Book! Go to for the instructions     Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via Click here to subscribe via You can also subscribe via Or subscribe through the app (see below) | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for or or smartphones and tablets (you can call or straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our !  

Brave New Podcast When: Recording Wednesdays, posting by Friday/CraftLit time. How and where to listen: - - - Crafty Chat Raffle for Julie’s Book! Go to for the instructions Book Talk Begins at 11:10 No notes needed! Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via Click here to subscribe via You can also subscribe via Or subscribe through the app (see below) | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for or or smartphones and tablets (you can call or straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our !  

Chapters 64-65 Crafty Chat links: Book Talk Begins at 10:30 Run AWAY! (Did they get out of the Count's digs in a hurry or what?) The chapter 65 map: Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via Click here to subscribe via You can also subscribe via Or subscribe through the app (see below) | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for or or smartphones and tablets (you can call or straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our !

Chapters 62-63 The Glorious DNA Bracelet The clip-a-ble "Mommy's Juice Boxes" The Before the chapter notes - NONE! The After the chapter notes - SPOILERS! The artists mentioned: The sad people of the sad rooms mentioned: ’s Tower (the Torre della Fame in the Piazza dei Cavalieri in Pisa by Archbishop Ruggieri in 1289 In the last circle of hell () ’s in Ferrara ’s room (poor ) In the Lustful circle of Hell () Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via Click here to subscribe via You can also subscribe via Or subscribe through the app (see below) | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for or or smartphones and tablets (you can call or straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our !

445: Chapters 60-61 — The Count of Monte Cristo Mommy's Juice Boxes Book talk starts at 6:06 Call in Line - 1-206-350-1642 Call in and leave an audio comment - First CoMC episode: | | Book Talk • 6:06 | The Oh-So-Cool Ways to subscribe to CraftLit: your weekly annotated audiobook podcast: Click here to subscribe via Click here to subscribe via You can also subscribe via Or subscribe through the app (see below) | FEEDBACK | You can ask your questions, make comments, and let us know what you do when you listen to CraftLit! Let your voice be heard. Download the FREE CraftLit App for or or smartphones and tablets (you can call or straight from within the app) Call 206-350-1642 Email [email protected] Use our !

444: NOLA - chapters 58-59   The Knitting mentioned: | BOOK TALK - 4:06 | Noitier's issues: , , and a .   And, with all the time you'll save not having to follow links, you can join other listeners at the following spots online:   (infrequently used) (where the audio will auto-post)  (where you'll find Erica from the Crafty Chats more than you'll find me) Twitter for and for Hope to see you there!    

  443: IngenWHO? - chapter 57  Patterns mentioned: pattern by Donna Griffin Plum Deluxe - - AT was drinking:  "A Dark Night Orange Spice Puerh"  Then she added this definition: Pu-erh or Pu'er[1] is a variety of fermented tea produced in Yunnan province, China, and named after Pu'er City. Book Talk • 07:39 And, with all the time you'll save not having to follow links, you can join other listeners at the following spots online: (infrequently used) (where the audio will auto-post)  (where you'll find Erica from the Crafty Chats more than you'll find me) Twitter for and for Hope to see you there!  

442: Another Piece of the Puzzle - chapter 56  Tara on the ) Book Talk • 03:36 If YOU can find anything on the Fashion Houses mentioned at , do tell!  "And how shall I be dressed?" demanded Andrea. "Oh, very simply; black trousers, patent leather boots, white waistcoat, either a black or blue coat, and a long cravat. Go to Blin or Veronique for your clothes. Baptistin will tell you where, if you do not know their address. The less pretension there is in your attire, the better will be the effect, as you are a rich man. If you mean to buy any horses, get them of Devedeux, and if you purchase a phaeton, go to Baptiste for it." (I also loved how "now don't be gauche" the Count is with Andrea here!)  And, with all the time you'll save not having to follow links, you can join other listeners at the following spots online: (infrequently used) (where the audio will auto-post)  (where you'll find Erica from the Crafty Chats more than you'll find me) Twitter for and for Hope to see you there!      

441: Listen - chapter 55  Book Talk • 23:58 Nope. Really, this week, not so much. Just listen to the GORGEOUS writing! And, with all the time you'll save not having to follow links, you can join other listeners at the following spots online: (infrequently used) (where the audio will auto-post)  (where you'll find Erica from the Crafty Chats more than you'll find me) Twitter for and for Hope to see you there!    

440: DoublePlusGood - chapter 54 . Or, see my bag .   Book Talk • 9:03

439: Mellow Drama - chapter 53 Articles on how the industry is changing , , and . Book Talk • 8:51 The Opera: By Anonymous print - User scan of Fontaine, Gérard (2004). Charles Garnier's Opéra: Architecture and Interior Decor, translated by Charles Penwarden. Paris: Éditions Patrimoine. . Original: Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra, Public Domain, Degas (damning?) take on the crowd “watching” the Ballet of the Nuns (or the daemons… I never was clear on this bit: By - , Public Domain, <