Sailing Toward Sixty #2 – Let’s Talk About Knitting
So, let’s talk about knitting. Why is knitting something that is associated with grandmas, which are associated with being old? Neither of those things is a given. All knitters are not grandmothers and all grandmothers are not old. I’ve known women who have become grandmothers by age forty. Forty is not old by anyone’s standards. Nonetheless, the stereotype of an “old lady” is a grandmotherly-type woman spending her day in a rocking chair knitting the hours away. You know…this doesn’t…