Welcome to the new home of La Petite Tricoteuse. I am a physicist, a knitter, an amateur chef, believer in faeries, old soul, and sometimes ingenue with a penchant for Kingdom Hearts and mon mari Belge. So, get your favorite snack ready, pull up a comfy chair, and join me on an adventure through time and space. I hope to cover myriad topics here and I hope we all learn a little somthing along the way.

The image here of our wedding cake, I think, sums me up pretty well. Monkeys having a great time making sculptures in the sand, as a medieval castle stands at attention in the distance. As an American expat living in a cozy little town in the French Alps, I have gotten to let my imagination run wild. All of the old buildings hold so much character. I can feel like I have fallen back in time a bit each time I walk to the butcher or the baker. I started knitting in order to link myself to the past. Physics gives me a path to the future. I have no idea how this will all end up, and I am sure there will be some frenetic ramblings along the way, but the life is in the journey after all.

If we are going to go on a journey together, it would probably be best if we all had the same map.

What is your quest?

To search for the Holy Grail! No, wait… that was Monty Python's quest. My current quest is to try and navigate the world as an expat and, hopefully, get some knitting and cooking done in the meantime. To faciliatate this goal, lets all get our compasses ready for a bit of orienteering. Our quest, like most adventures, will not be a linear progression of ideas or happenings. Rather, it will go where the wind takes us—namely through the use of the map marker 'tabs' found at the top of the page.

• the journey: This is where most of the physics and knitting adventures take place and will probably be the most oft-updated item.
• characters: Short bios of myself and characters we meet along the way. Check here sporadically for updates.
• elevensies: Because sometimes I am still hungry after second breakfast. Quest-befitting recipes will appear here every once in a while.
• history: Where I get to share my story. At times—just silly memories, at others—a timeline.

Off we go. Over the hills and far away.