January 2010
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Stitch and Bitch
In the name of trying new things, I’ve walked my nimble fingers into the world of knitting. For my first project, I started with a cowl. The pattern is fairly simple, but the instructions are totally confusing. Is it too much to ask for clear, direct language? So I’ve edited it a bit to make the pattern more user-friendly.
The Simon (Cowl)
1 skein Misti Alpaca hand paint chunky yarn
16- or...
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Heirloom Analog
Like other magazine junkies, I worry that the experience of flipping through a glossy will soon no longer be available. The coolness of the page, the crisp photos, the satisfying smack the book (editor talk for “magazine”) makes when it lands on a coffee table—oh, how I loves it. I still have boxes full of American Girl, YM, Seventeen, and Rolling Stone that I made my parents take...
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101 Things To Do Before This Nerd Goes
1. Walk the entire Appalachian Trail 2. Speak fluent Spanish 3. Graduate from culinary school 4. Write for Playboy, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Vogue, and The New Yorker 5. Work on a cookbook 6. Sew an awesome dress 7. Camp with Sam (just the two of us) 8. Drive a stick shift 9. Go on a cross-country road trip 10. Sing on stage 11. Appear in a movie 12. SCUBA dive 13. Live in New Zealand 14. Become a...
“Today’s reality is that much of freelancing has become all too...”
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—a depressing, though not entirely new, observation from the LA Times’ James Rainey
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So You Want to Be a Yoga Star
For all of its talk about enlightenment, balance, and equanimity, today’s yoga is very much a business—not that there’s anything wrong with that. After all, great teachers deserve a great following and a great deal of money that can support their time, patience, and willingness to touch dirty feet and sweaty bodies.
During my five years at Yoga Journal, I watched once no-name teachers...
“The production is less about love and more about how we remember love. Or, how...”
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— Robert Smith in his NPR piece “Romeo and Juliet: Just as You Misremembered It.”