About a week before Susan Boyle erupted into our collective social conscious by way of the mainstream media, I watched her performance on youtube. I had a facebook account back when it was only for university students. I’ve been following people on twitter long enough to get how it works. I’ve even explained what it [...]
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Found this the other day in a book from 1944 about the textile arts and love this hand-drawn diagram. Also can’t get over the book’s glowing endorsement of asbestos as a useful material in household applications. Now I’m wondering what textiles people will be cringing about in 65 years…
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It’s been awhile since I’ve written here!
Despite all the best intentions, sometimes just sitting down to write can prove to be the most difficult thing. In the past few weeks my writing attempts have been thwarted by annoying things such as the flu, snowstorms, and travel delays. While there’s not much that I can do [...]
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
I’m one of those people who shows up at the post office on a holiday only to become perplexed to find it closed. I once dialed up my local bank on a three day weekend and asked a question of the woman who answered. After listening to my query, she identified herself as part of [...]
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
Italian menswear designers presented their collections last week to kick off the fall 2009/10 show season. For the next month and a half, those of us in the fashion world will be paying a lot of attention to what comes down the ramps in Milan, Paris, London and New York. While I will be paying [...]
The cruelest thing about heartache is that it can take you by surprise. Losing something you care about is never easy. Losing something and then realizing that you had deep feelings for it can be quite distressing, especially when that thing happens to be a pair of shoes.
It was a long and tender courtship that [...]
