What Do You Want to Make Today?
Affiliate links included for your convenience. It’s Prime Day! Amazon’s annual super-sale event is on, and it’s a great time to stock up on basic and beyond supplies for every corner of your house. There are lots of great deals for crafters to be had on Prime Day. Here are a few of the things […]
I was the last person in the house to get sick this winter. I waited until it barely felt like winter anymore, but it’s been a doozy of an illness, with sinus headaches and fever and all that no-good stuff. Being sick is the worst, because we still have to work (at least I’m lucky […]
Is it just me, or did 2016 go by like that? I feel like I barely accomplished anything, even though I did a lot of writing — and posted daily here from January through the end of May! — and got some clarity about the direction I want my professional life to take. There were […]
I spent a lot of time thinking over the holiday about what I am thankful for, of course, but also about how things feel really hard right now, in America and elsewhere. There is so much divisiveness and uncertainty and we don’t really know how it’s all going to pan out (which, I suppose, is […]
This is a compensated post, but all opinions are my own. I don’t know how it is in your family, but there are a lot of birthdays and causes for celebration this time of year. But it’s hot and the girl is home from school so I don’t exactly want to go shopping all over […]
To my non-local readers: apologies for getting super local and a little political today. But we should all support our libraries, wherever we are, in whatever way we can. Even if you don’t have a library tax election coming up, maybe you can find a way to show your local library some love, too. It […]
It started before Halloween. Memes were popping up on Facebook saying so many days until Thanksgiving, this many weeks until Christmas, that many days before Black Friday or New Year’s or whatever. I even saw one in early fall talking about how many days it was until summer! Stop it. Please. I don’t care how […]