Money for Medicine

These ladies got naked to help their friend pay for the drugs that are keeping her alive after cancer treatment (cos, you know, a national health service would be the work of the devil. And Hillary Clinton.) Then they made a calendar. Now they’re selling it. Treat yourself and help Heather pay her bills!

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Out of it

I am, apparently, not a fashionista. I’m thinking of buying some new clothes. Since all my post-baby shopping so for (make that almost two years, oops) has been done at Target, I thought I’d take a look online and see what is fashionable this year, before I got out and buy stuff that is oh,… Continue reading Out of it

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Knitted Key Cover

Key Cover Originally uploaded by jwordsmith. Ha! I love having a useful hobby. The handle came off my car key. It’s one of those big black keys with electronics in it and a key part that whips out like a switchblade. It also had a handle on one end that let me attach it to… Continue reading Knitted Key Cover

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Adding Converts

I did it. It was my first time. I feel like a real grown-up knitter now. I taught my friend to knit. It totally did not push it. She came over (from the other side of the country, no less) and more or less instantly demanded that I teach her to knit. So I did.… Continue reading Adding Converts

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Early Morning Writing

I woke up at 6.30 this morning, with no boys in sight or sound. I weighed the possibilities: go back to sleep for all of fifteen minutes, or get up and have a cup of coffee and a wee write, sitting at the dining table, watching the early morning light wash the sky/house line. I… Continue reading Early Morning Writing

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My Stellar Clientele

I did this guy’s website. Think I should  feature him a little less prominently in my portfolio?

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Thoughtful

This blogpost made me laugh out loud. Then I kept reading and it made me go “Hmm. That’s a brilliantly simple idea.”

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Lit-Bashing

Just tried to read the Atlantic Monthly fiction issue. What pretentious claptrap: the kind of stuff only read by people who talk about having read “the latest Mailler.”Give me the short fiction in Women’s Weekly any day. At least we know in the first paragraph who this is about and why we should care; “Who… Continue reading Lit-Bashing

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Bored With The Internet?

bored_with_the_internet Originally uploaded by jwordsmith. Does this feel familiar?

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