Karen M. Poremski

@kmporemski.bsky.social

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Writer, reader, knitter, spinner, spouse, parent, bossed around by cats. Fan of bike races. Haver of chronic illnesses. Living in a place named for the Delaware people.

I am on the Pride of Baltimore II, standing in front of the wheel and under a boom, with ropes in the background. My hair is blowing around and I'm smiling.
In the foreground: I am holding some fiber and spinning it with my spinning wheel. In the background: the Tour de France Femmes on tv, showing Kasia climbing the mountain.
A bearded man wearing glasses and a nice jacket; he is smiling. The Jeopardy background is behind him.
Two skeins of hand-spun yarn and two bobbins with some spun fiber on them. My wheel is also in the frame.
In the background, the Tour de France is playing on the teevee. It shows riders approaching the Arc de Triomphe. In the foreground, my hand holds some spinning fiber that is yellow, white, and red. In between is my spinning wheel.
A large bobbin of yarn I plied, a kind of marl of light blue, pink, and white. My spinning wheel is in the background.
I am holding two bobbins of fiber I spun, a blue & white & pink blend of wool and silk; behind them is my spinning wheel.
A selfie with me in the foreground, masked, and the harbor in the background, obscured by a smoky haze. I've just noticed that the photo shows my brow very furrowed.
An air quality map of the U.S. east coast region from D.C. to Trenton, NJ. There are lots of orange, red, and purple circles indicating smoke/bad air quality.
A photo of Pope Leo holding a baseball bat. He is smiling.
A graphic from the weather underground app on my phome; it shows the temperature as 102 degrees Fahrenheit, with a "feels like" temp of 112.
Two tall ships in Baltimore's inner harbor, lit up for nighttime.
A nighttime scene in Baltimore's inner harbor, four tall ships in view with lights strung on some of the masts and spars, the water reflecting those lights.
The tall ship Amerigo Vespucci (from Italy) coming into Baltimore's inner harbor. Its hull is black and white.
Looking down into the inner harbor by some pylons; there's a blue crab under the surface!
A large tabby cat is sitting on the floor, holding one rear leg in the air.
A small cat peeks out from behind a curtain as she sits on a window ledge. Next to her are some stuffed animals. The sun is shining, and she looks quite pleased with herself.
Looking into the skies over Baltimore and the clouds are golden-pink.
A closeup of a section of a knitted lace shawl in denim blue.
The photo shows, on a window ledge behind a white sheer curtain, a row of stuffed animals and maybe a wee tabby cat with a white bib. She looks sleepy.
Sidney Chambers, a character from the PBS show Grantchester, stands before his congregation in his vestments--a white robe and black stole.
A Mari Lwyd puppet shakes its bells and clacks its teeth.
A clay vessel from about 1500 years ago that looks like a stylized lobster, made in Peru (I think). From an exhibit at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
A screenshot of Pixels' skeet, and under it is one from Jorts the cat that says: It's 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies.
I am holding a bright red hat project in progress; there are silver knitting needles at the top of the hat.
A tabby cat with white chin stretches out on a crocheted blanket on a bed. She looks satisfied with her life choices.
A spinning wheel bobbin with some yarn on it, multicolored in pink, brown, and ivory. To the left, I am holding a bunch of roving in my hand.
A still photo of an episode of Poirot; he is sitting up in bed, holding an elegant bowl of soup, wearing a shawl in muted tones of brown, bronze, and green.
A large tabby cat lying on a red blanket, wearing a green pointy hat with a light green pattern on it.
A tuxedo cat stands by a chair; he looks like he's confronting the viewer with a harsh question.
Bright pink aurora streaks the night sky over houses and cars.
Bright pink aurora streaking a night sky above houses and trees.
A bright pink aurora making streaks in the night sky above houses and trees.
A tabby cat sleeps with her front half on a beige blanket.
A black and white cat rests his head on a fish-shaped pillow, with a blue blanket under him. He looks annoyed.
A squirrel sits at a wee picnic table, eating corn out of a takeout-box-shaped container on the table.
A panel of lace knitting in navy blue yarn.
A gold-colored baby sweater drying on a mat; there's a fancy stitch pattern around the yoke, bottom, and sleeve ends. On the upper left, part of a yellow stuffed octopus is visible.
A crowd of protestors, some waving Palestinian flags, streams across a road in Madrid where there are some signposts marking 8km left in the race.
A tabby cat with a white bib and white toes looks up at my finger.
In the foreground: a spinning wheel with dark blue fiber I'm making into a single. In the background: a TV with the Velta à España bike race on; riders are going up a steep hill.
A tuxedo cat in an empty microwave box looks at a tabby cat not in a box.
A tabby cat who looks really annoyed faces the camera; next to her is a knitted chicken.
Once again, the Tour de France on a television in the background, spinning wheel in the foreground.
A screenshot of a baseball game, and under it, Fun quotes (sort of) a famous line from Field of Dreams.
In the background: a television showing the Tour de France. In the foreground: a spinning wheel with some sage-colored roving attached.
A television in the background shows the Tour de France; in the foreground, a spinning wheel holds some sage-colored fiber.
In the background: a television showing the Tour de France; in the foreground, a spinning wheel with some sage-colored fiber attached.
Tour de France on the TV in the background, spinning wheel with sage-colored fiber in the foreground.
A tabby cat lolling on a sidewalk, her belly in the sun.
A tabby cat rests her chin on a patterned pillow. Her eyes are partly closed
That kid on Simpsons going "ha ha."
A squirrel sitting on a wee picnic table, eating corn from a wee bowl.
A knitted chicken, dark grey with purple stripes, sits on a bed of fake berries on our rattan porch chair.
Michele Obama in a dark dress and gold hoop earrings, admonishing the audience to "do something!"
A small tabby cat with a white bib sits on a bed; she looks a bit skeptical. The coverlet has a dark green floral pattern on it.
A male mallard stands on a blacktop road lined with greenery. He looks kind of existential.
A gathering of knitted gnomes around a pink dome, which is a gnome in progress. They're standing on a green train case; one looks like a snowman, while the smaller ones have red hats and blue outfits. One smaller gnome is all in purple.
An old image of a woman in a big black dress with crescent moons on it; she holds a staff with a star dangling from it, and wears a star tiara. The words above say, "Tired of trying to cram her sparkly star-shaped self into society's beige square holes," and the words below say, "she chose to embrace her ridiculous awesomeness and shine like the freaking supernova she was meant to be."