I made a purse. I sewed it myself. I actually followed a pattern and sewed a purse that looks good. I'm a bit stunned. I pretty much flunked sewing in Home Ec, never actually finishing the blouse we were supposed to make. I spent most of the class time ripping out seams (if they'd given us grades in...
post-unrequited crush loneliness, followed by actual love, then loss, then recovery. I am a solitary and it shall be okay. losing some 30 lbs (though this week I’ve been doing my damnedness to recover that as well). getting in touch with my Inner French Girl. shifting from telecommuting isolation...
I'm super excited about State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, a book that is "resurrects an effort from the 1930s, when the WPA created the Federal Writers' Project, commissioning America's writers to describe their states." Many of my favorite authors have written chapters for it. Alas,...
This American Life is already, in my view, the logical center of existence, but this week's episode has got me hyped. In addition to three amazing segments (David Rakoff learns how to watch TV, Sarah Vowell recounts popular sitcoms' treatment of Thanksgiving, Dan Savage worries that the Disney...
