In a previous working life, I inhabited one main world for almost a decade. I knew how the thinking about it worked, how to make decisions (or at least some principles for trying). Then I jumped ship. And now I get to be a social anthropologist of websites. These days, what I end up writing …
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When I started planning these posts, I had a few that were already good to go. The one about sandwich eating, for example. But over the course of writing this month, I realise how much books become a way that you enter into a whole range of experiences and understandings. Including of other cultures. When …
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I spent a lot of the last couple of months reading. I found a blog or two I liked, and through those, found more. And through these connections, I found websites of others who love both reading and writing. One post struck a chord: about Louisa May Alcott, writer of Little Women. Little Women is …
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Before self-help books, there are how to books. Perhaps they’re more prevalent for girls. In thinking of books I’ve read that have impacted me, or shaped the way I think, it includes books that are intended to help girls work out how to be…women? I should probably note here that I don’t have a sister. …
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Had a ‘day off school’ day yesterday. Me too – strange sickness bug going about. Luckily we’re back to normal today. But it got me thinking about a craft book I had when I was little (and still have): the Stay in Bed Book. There were (are) two of these books: Stay in Bed and …
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