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Craft THIS!, Martha.

Share Last night I was busy making farls and finishing up a hat I was knitting, all while whilst wearing an apron. The prior night, it was me prancing around the kitchen making homemade granola and hummus. While wearing an apron. And nearly every night it has been the same image: Me in the kitchen [...]

Summer/Time

Share I’m currently ensconced in the wilds of Illinois, where Wednesday I’ll be heading off to my second interview with a local library system. I’m alternating between being nervous and depressed about this interview, not because I don’t want the job – I do, but rather because job hunting is exhausting and at times, incredibly [...]

Storm clouds and bendy trees

Share The heat broke today for the first time in weeks and I’m hoping the blanket of humidity that has been suffocating my brain will rise and let me think more clearly. We’ve been slugs around these parts, our bodies languid in the heat and our minds unfocused and restless. We can barely stand to [...]

Hire me or the pug gets it.

Share The closer my friend Jessica got to graduation from our alma mater, the more worried she got about not finding a job. Understandably, Jessica had been pimping herself out for six moths prior to graduation and had not so much as a phone interview yet. Jessica was my litmus stick in the world of [...]

May the 4th Be With You: Lisa and Justin got married.

Share Originally, I was going to write up some pithy (well, not really) blog post about how we got here and the decade long separation between the last time we dated and now and why we are getting married. The entry was going to post at the time we were due at to the courthouse, [...]

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