Stephanie Briggs - Handmade Knitting My Way Through Chronic Pain

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Nazi Death Camps, Not Polish Death Camps

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  Today, 27 January 2015, marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Army in 1945. There aren’t many survivors left alive, and next year there will be fewer. It would be much simpler to invent new words for these concepts. This Wikipedia article discusses the use of the adjective “Polish” […]

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Top Ten List of Things to Say if You Get Caught Sleeping at Your Desk

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Top Ten List of Things to Say if You Get Caught Sleeping at Your Desk 10. “They told me at the Blood Bank this might happen.” 9. “This is just a 15 minute power nap they raved about in the time management course you sent me to.” 8. “Whew! Guess I left the top off […]

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Hamlet Takes Medication

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Oh, that this too, too brittled flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon ‘gainst self-medication. Oh God, God, How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the ERs of this world Fie on’t, fie, tis an unweeded garden That grows to […]

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Chronic Pain

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I don’t think, until and unless people have had chronic, unrelenting, severe pain for months or years on end, they can really understand what it’s like. People try and compare different acute pains to chronic. Good try…but it’s not the same thing. Chronic severe pain sucks the life-force right out of you. If I believed […]

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High on Yarn

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My Cotton-Ease Seaspray yarn arrived a few days ago. DH brought the package in and said, “Your crack has arrived.” “My what???” (I know I’m on a lot of medications, but the last time I checked, crack cocaine wasn’t one of them. However, my memory is pretty crappy these days…) “What makes you high?” The lightbulb […]

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Bilingual Babies

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Yesterday, I wrote about linguistics and language acquisition in kids under 3 years old, so I needn’t belabor the point here. Here’s an article that I came across today: Hearing Bilingual: How Babies Sort Out Language http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/health/views/11klass.html?_r=1 Doesn’t the mental picture of an infant-size EEG cap just make you go “Awwww!”? How about twenty little […]

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News About My Seaspray Shawl – Regularly Updated!

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16 October 2011: My next Etsy project for “A” will be made from Cotton Ease Seaspray yarn, and will be a shawl 5 feet square. Garter stitch (knit every row), using 6mm needles and 60 inch cable. The needle tips are interchangeable; they can be screwed onto and off of longer plastic cable, which allows […]

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Your kid can’t pronounce a letter? Don’t panic!

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On Facebook recently, I saw a woman fretting over the fact that her 22-month old daughter couldn’t pronounce the letter “L” in words like clock, cluck, flock, clear. She wanted to know whether she should look into getting the child into speech therapy. I studied about half a degree’s worth of undergraduate psychology courses, and […]

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