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All three of my children have varying degrees of ADHD. My daughter, who now has a magical three-year-old son, has begun working with a coach to help her move through the world more effectively with this condition. She noticed I have many of the same symptoms, and she has improved so much with help from her coach that she urged me to get tested. Which I’m doing.
In the meantime, I want to share with you an image that gave me a surprising sense of wellbeing. It came to me on Labor Day weekend, as I sat in my living room working on a sweater.
When you become an intermediate knitter, you begin to tackle the cable knit stitch. Cable knit is the pattern you can see in the image above. It resembles a braid, and I get happy every time I work on a sweater with this motif built into it.
A cable knit pattern requires that you skip stitches at regular intervals, holding those stitches back on a separate needle. Later, you pick them up again, knitting them back into the pattern.
The other day during my bookkeeping, I realized something was off. I called the people on the other side of this problem to untangle a mess I’d made. I’d forgotten to enter a piece of data in the original invoice. It took a lot of…
