Stephanie Briggs - Handmade Knitting My Way Through Chronic Pain

Knitting by hand, owned by three cats and a manbeast

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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Why is the Starship Craftybiz So Awesome?

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  My Internet Guru Web Ninja, who also happens to be my husband*, just made me an affiliate button for the group I belong to: Tara Swiger’s amazing Starship Craftybiz. It’s a forum, stuffed with classes, that helps people who are making their craft hobby into a business. Tara has been doing stuff like this […]

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Review of Laura Kalpakian’s “Cosette: The Sequel to Les Misérables”

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I love this much-maligned “sequel” to Les Misérables, because I do not look at it strictly as a sequel. Yes, it contains many of the same characters in name, who in the original novel act in certain ways and have recognizable traits of personality, and in Kalpakian’s book do not act in the same way. […]

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Yarn and Chronic Illness

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Do you have a chronic illness that makes your skin hurt, or sensitive to different touches and fabrics? You’ve come to the right place! I have had severe chronic pain since I was 18, and have many friends with chronic illnesses. I met my husband on a website for people with chronic illnesses. He has […]

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Doctor appointment tomorrow

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I’m seeing the doctor tomorrow, because he wouldn’t do his job last week. Last week’s appointment was supposed to be a routine request for repeats, a referral to a neurologist (start as early on it as possible because it takes a long time) and an increase in my duloxetine for migraines. He refused to increase […]

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