I am hollowed out by rage. My work has been trash. I’m exhausted every day. I spend so much time trying to understand what would make a sane, rational person think, “Brett Kavanaugh will be…
Browsing Category I Made This
Day 72 of 200: Unphotogenic
Tonight for CSA Supperclub I made pulled pork enchiladas with a poblano cream sauce and Spanish rice. I was pretty proud of this meal. I roasted the pork shoulder and the poblanos yesterday in preparation….
Day 32 of 200: I Hate Myself for Buying You
Confession: On this the 25th day of August in the Year of Our Ellen Willis 2018 I did go forth and purchasedc supplies to start making Christmas gifts. Yes, it is absolutely batshit crazy to…
Holy Shit, People, I Will Dare (.com) is 16 years old today!
Get a load of this, if my blog were a human, she could go take her driver’s license test today. And if she were like me she would totally ruin her 16th birthday by failing…
On the 15th Anniversary of I Will Dare (.com)
When I started iwilldare.com Bill Clinton was president. Of all the things that used to be in 2000, when I started this website, that’s the one that makes it feel the most aged. When I…
Bragging: The Gifts I Made for Christmas
Pictured above is my seventeen-year-old niece, Jaycie, and the crocheted Grumpy Cat I made for her. Also, I made the blanket that’s in her lap, but it wasn’t nearly as popular as the cat. This…
On hiatuses & hats
So I took an unplanned hiatus from the Internet last week. I didn’t set out to ignore the place for seven entire days, but that’s what happened and I’m all the happier for it. I’m…
a cynical butterfly
kari called today and we talked about my marvelous, magnificant, marble magnets (of which i am sure she’s quite envious): “yeah, i saw you made a butterfly.” “i told you i was gonna!” “but you…
kari of so little faith
while shopping about yesterday, i dragged kari to michaels so i could get the good stuff to make quidnunc’s magnificent marble magnets, that i’ve been coveting. kari was shocked and appalled, she didn’t think i…
arts and crafts
ok, if you haven’t stumbled upon quidnuc you probably should now, because she keeps posting all these wonderful crafty projects that i can’t wait to try out on my own. the marble magnets looks like…