Posted by Barely Knit Together on Dec 26, 2009 in
Homemaking Made Easy
A rerun from last year. Because it’s my favorite.
Ladies, this is the most glorious time of year, the time when you are blessed with a multitude of lovely new sets of pajamas and slippers and wonderfully useful household tools (like, say, a pizza cutter that looks like a shark and a brand new mop head), [...]
Tags: clean up, cleaning, getting organized, holidays, humor, parent bloggers network, recycling
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Dec 17, 2009 in
Creative Nonfiction,
Writing
You might, one night, find yourself buying a mango outside a bodega in the West Village after a long night spent listening to music with a pianist, in the basement of a bring-your-own bottle jazz club.
Perhaps it is almost dawn, and your favorite food in the world is a mango, and the pianist has never [...]
Tags: jazz, mangoes, nyc, prose poem, summer
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Dec 12, 2009 in
Writing
I’ve decided to post a tiny excerpt from the story I attempted to write for National Novel Writing Month. I made it to the half-way point at about 25,000 words, but realized my characters and story needed more work, and I needed to step away from them. Frankly, they were irritating me even more than [...]
Tags: fiction, NaNoWriMo, rough rough rough draft, story