Stephanie




I'm doing 23 things
 
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live in a foreign country
will certainly make you appreciate "home" 8 months ago

And it will help you to understand both how large and how small the world is. I lived in a foreign country at the age of 10-11, and it changed the course of my life. I will never forget it.


Learn to knit (read all 2 entries…)
It's addictive! 8 months ago

My 10-yr-old niece taught me an easy way to cast on, and the knit stitch, and I went online to one of the many tutorials and learned to purl and bind off. It’s so much easier than I ever thought it would be.

Now I’m over halfway through my first project (a scarf, of course, in a simple stockinette stitch (k2, p2), and am really enjoying it. I pick it up whenever I have spare time and have watched (mostly listening!) two movies in the process. It’s incredibly addictive for someone who fidgets as much as I do anyway. It gives me something to do with my fingers. Don’t overdo it though – you get a bit of hand cramps and carpal tunnel pain after a few hours straight. Still, I can’t stop!


get published
just a letter to the editor... 1 year ago

... but good enough for me to count this done… I just wanted to see my name (and writing!) in print, and a letter to the editor of my favorite magazine did the trick. It was well-written, and I was proud of it. done


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