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From Make & Meaning: Alternatively, Try Anything Once

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July 16, 2010
From Make & Meaning: Alternatively, Try Anything Once

This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on December 11th, 2009. Paul recently wrote about his desire to drop-kick commenters who say “Great tutorial! I could never do that.” The same kind of self-deprecating denial often follows phrases like, “Great photo!” “Great project!” and “Great post!” Like Paul, I’ve...
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From Make & Meaning: So Tell Me What You Really Think

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July 13, 2010
Freedom of Speech, by Randy Robertson on Flickr

This post was originally published on the now-retired Make and Meaning blog on December 5th, 2009. Let’s talk about opinions. What do you think of opinions? I think opinions are the very things that make life fascinating. In their most benign state, opinions manifest as subtle preferences — loving marshmallows but not so much...
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From Make & Meaning: Diving in After a Dry Spell

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July 8, 2010
From Make & Meaning: Diving in After a Dry Spell

This post was originally published on the now-retired Make and Meaning blog on November 30th, 2009. When I left my job in the yarn industry about a year ago, I was pretty much a crafting mess. My hobby had been lost to work, the thought of yarn sparked in me nothing but ambivalence, and...
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