DIY

[W]hen tickets went on sale for a DIY punk music festival that my wife had attended several times before we were married, and she lamented that there was “just no way” that she’d be able to go, a light bulb went off in my head. “What if we just all went together?” I said.

The inimitable Alice Walker said, “When you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.” As someone with multiple mental illnesses, I truly believe that crafting has soul-restoring properties.

Knitters don’t even have cable. Cable is for people living in this century. 

Maybe you were feeling a little too confident this week—a little too put-together or in control of your life. It’s okay, it happens to all of us from time to time. You take a break from fashion magazines and celebrity websites, and before you know it, you begin to feel like you’re a competent, productive, adequate human being.

It's common knowledge that weddings are ridiculously, outrageously, soul-crushingly expensive.

I should have known when I found the do-it-yourself waxing kit in the pet food aisle at the grocery store. This was merely red flag No. 1.

Has a wedding planning company taken cat love a little too far?

You say you want a revolution? We're having a nineties reboot . . . with the spirit of the sixties seeping in.