Posted by Nancy Flynn on 2005-05-25 12:44:15
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are you looking to make money, or stay entertained?
i second sarabell on temping or working part-time if you want to make the $$.
if you are bored, how about looking into volunteering? or perhaps taking a class at a local school in something you've always wanted to try but never had time? A cooking class? Wood carving? then of course there is my favorite passtime, reading. get your friends to put together a reading list for you, or just browse the library. there are also great recs on here in the bookworms section...
i am so envious that you have a summer off! i hope you enjoy it.
Posted by for_esme on 2004-08-25 14:37:41
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nicegirl, i don't know about other people but i've never tried to mince ginger. i use a specialized ginger grater, which gets out all the yummy juice and pulp but leaves the stringy mess attached to the root. if you've never used one, it sounds weird, but i took a thai cooking class and the instructor said that you pretty much need a ginger grater if you're going to use fresh ginger - i guess you're not really supposed to eat the stringy stuff.
anyway, it only costs about $3 or $4 at a kitchen store, i got mine at bed bath and beyond. remember to peel the ginger first before you grate it.
Posted by anthrogirl on 2006-02-16 10:01:29
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It is interesting to note that as a 36 year old woman I was in the wake of the feminist movement and crafts, cooking and anything that was overtly "feminine" was struck from my education. I had no home ec or any other form of teaching on these things. I am grateful for that actually because I was allowed to do many other things in school that weren't offered to the generation before me. And now I am able to find craft/womens art on my own and in my own way.
Also, I find that my daughter (15) is more able to express her very left thoughts in craft more so then I am. I have a "what would they think" moment and she doesn't care what they think. She expresses it in stitching words, or using symbols that reflect her very left values.
The quilt information is wonderful. I remember reading something by a childrens author that illustrated that beautifully.
http://goodwolve.blogs.com
In a way, I was very lucky. My high school did actually teach cooking (it had been all girls up until the year I entered, and so both the boys and girls took cooking class). My mom and dad had started me on cooking early though, and my mom had a sewing machine. I do too, but I haven't used it in years. I need to dig it out this weekend to finish a project- hope I can remember how to use it.
I crochet on the subway. The other day I saw another crocheter, and I smile. Yesterday in my mythology class we were talking about women and textiles, and I passed around a bootie I had made and explained how I had dyed and crocheted the wool myself. I wanted my students to understand that even in ancient Greece, women had power- pride and excellence are not just expressed on the battlefield.
I've found that while I have 'what would they think' moments, they don't happen vey often. Two reasons why- because I'm old enough now to have some confidnece in myself, and because by growing up when I did, which gave me a web of invisibility (it often happens that way when you are part of a minority group, and back then black ideas of beauty and style didn't often appear inthe mainstream press), I didn't feel like anyone would really notice what I did anyway. It sounds similar for your daughter, in that she's not self-conscious.
Here's a link to 'Show Way'. It's a great book, and not just for children. It was so good it made me cry.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399237496/sr=8-1/qid=1140102222/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-3981127-4604806?%5Fencoding=UTF8
Posted by artlady75 on 2006-02-19 08:17:23
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We went to San Frasico, that is where he proposed to me 2 years before we got married. So we reenacted our date that we had, the night he proposed. Then we went to wine country, we love wine and we took a cooking class, we love to cook together. We got a lot of wine that we mailed home. We still have some. We have one bottle for our 25th anniversary and one for our 50th anniversary. We live in Iowa but we love the west coast.
Posted by craftfetish on 2006-07-26 11:57:34
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I have a BS in Biology & Women's Studies. Mostly science and women's health classes, but due to the magic of a liberal arts degree - a bit of ceramics and congolese dance and fun things like that thrown in.
I have a Masters of Public Health in "Social and Behavioral Sciences" and "Epidemiology and Biostatistics." Mostly this is trying to influence people's decisions about their health (e.g. quitting smoking) and seeing if your efforts are actually working.
And due to the wonderful world of adult and community education, I have studied ceramics and woodworking and all sorts of wonderul things. Fall enrollment starts soon - I'm thinking about a cooking class.
