Anyone who has the impression that sewing is for old ladies is crazy.
Dangers abound: broken needle parts that fly at your face, that adrenaline rush that only being stuck by a pin unawares can bring. And last, but certainly not least, the ever lurking potential of sewing one’s fingers to the project.
I lucked out [...]
Anyone who has the impression that sewing is for old ladies is crazy.
Dangers abound: broken needle parts that fly at your face, that adrenaline rush that only being stuck by a pin unawares can bring. And last, but certainly not least, the ever lurking potential of sewing one’s fingers to the project.
I lucked out this time, catching my quilting gloves a mili-stitch away from my skin. But I do remember that one time in seventh grade home-ec class…
Tags: dangers of sewingIn “Revolutionary Road,” April and Frank Wheeler are a young married couple driven by ideas. The ideas they hold are of essence and forms, conceptions of things and states and realities that—for them—hold truth, greatness, and validity inherently within them. This essentialist thinking permeates the entire novel, as the couple desperately tries to avoid the [...]
One could argue that things have been more important than people since very early in human history.
Women have been traded like cattle, gifts and dowry have preceded humanistic concerns, and man has, despite what we would like to think of ourselves, a certain sort of innate brutality when it comes to our actions against [...]
“More Work for Mother” by Ruth Schwartz Cowan is, essentially, a history of the technology of the home. The author’s hypothesis is that the home was only partially industrialized in the Twentieth Century, and that the failings of technology to truly revolutionize the home environment (or, more importantly, the work processes required to sustain it) [...]
The other morning my daughter, who is nine (and is biologically and by choice a night owl) was having her typical trouble getting up and ready for school. She insisted on clinging to me in the name of being cold, to which I said — “Get up! Get dressed! Dressing is a warming!”
She didn’t miss [...]
The last workbook of Greek and Roman Culture asked us to write an essay on some of the most influential ideologies that we had encountered while journeying through ancient Greece and into the Roman Empire. We were asked to “pluck a bouquet” of insights that we found applicable today.
I usually have a zero tolerance policy [...]
The introduction to the book “Community and the Politics of Place” begins with a discussion of the similarities and differences between the Montana constitution and the US Constitution. The author sets up the idea that place (that is, the rolling plains and majestic mountains mentioned in the document) had much to do with how and [...]
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