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Since the new owner of BME has removed most of Shannon Larratt’s life work from the site, including the well known article, Love at First Bite, featuring Clive and I way back in 2005, I was given an HTML copy of it and have “republished” it on my own domain. You can read it, [...]

Can someone please explain to me what “writing things off” actually means? Like, if I were to buy a new computer for $1500, would I be able to “write that off” as a business expense? I keep a spreadsheet of all of my business expenses- from thread to materials to a few gasoline receipts, but [...]

Before Clive and I left for our honeymoon we signed a lease on an apartment that I’d been eyeing for months. The owner was renovating the entire thing, and I really liked the location (two blocks from our current place) and literally right next door to my sister. We share a chimney. I met [...]

These 20 zipper pouches are on their way to P’lovers just as soon as Ash wakes up from his afternoon nap. We’ll be taking a bus there, which is one of Ash’s very favorite automobiles. I take a back road route to one of the grocery stores that we visit several times a week, [...]

Today I scored a pile of upholstery sample books two feet high. Yesterday I spent $50 on used fabric. I have more fabric than I know what to do with, yet not enough to stock pile slings. Last night I made three slings and started about four others. Tonight I started three bonnets [...]

So, I have a new group of mommy friends. My main mommy friend is about 12+ years older than me and has a baby girl that’s three months younger than Ash. We met through our doula back in December, before she gave birth. We have a good time, but there is a bit of disconnect [...]

I’m supposed to be sewing right now. P’lovers ordered a new batch of slings, 12 this time (horah!), so I shouldn’t be in front of the computer, but I need a minute of downtime before starting again.
This morning Ash woke up at 7:30, which I don’t remember him ever doing before, which meant that his [...]

Today I met my half-sister for the first time. Her name is Leala.
She’s three years younger than me and we have the same (absent, drunk) father. My mother was with him for a few years before leaving him once and for all when she was five months pregnant after he cheated on her with another [...]

Lately I’ve been filling my days (read: nap times) with old episodes of The L Word (I’m midway through season two), a show that I love, yet is a bit dangerous for me because I start thinking about what life would be like if I wasn’t in such a hetero lifestyle.
Nap times have [...]