HeyJaredLetters from Late Middle Age
I write about learning new stuff in your 60s. Navigating the end of the big career. Neurodivergence. Food. It's a wide brief, says the ex-lawyer.
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Sewing WTF? 4. To sleep, perchance. (opens the original)
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In which I go down the rabbit hole, so you don’t have to. It is a surprise to me as much as anyone else that sewing has become my go-to activity. It isn’t a surprise that I have thrown myself into it, given my nature, but the degree of the surrender and the pull of the machine has been something I needed to interrogate. Why? Because I’m me but also because I want to understand not only what it is doing to my brain but also why it seems to be so beneficial, as well as addictive. And I want it to
Sewing WTF? 3. Obsession. Again. (opens the original)
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It wasn’t meant to be like this. I did not imagine that my - dreaded word alert - retirement would have me spending an inordinate amount of time in the room of doom above the loft, the one which had been neglected for fifteen years, other than for a brief spell during the pandemic where it pretended to be an office for the short time I was working from home until my main fuse board short-circuited. And I’m talking about myself here, obv, not the fuse board in the cloakroom. Same effect though. A
Sewing WTF? (2) (opens the original)
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It is not enough for me to buy a sewing machine. It is not enough for me to buy three books on the basics of using a sewing machine. It is not enough for me to have a seam ripper in two sizes. It is not enough for me to have the self-healing cutting board and two types of rotary cutters as well as snippers and three types of scissors and a set of pinking shears. It is not enough for me to have the see-through rulers. It is not even enough for me to have found an excellent source of interesting f
Sewing. What the fuck? (1) (opens the original)
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I want to write about sewing. Yes, sewing. One of the most unexpected sentences that I have ever written, though to be fair there is stiff competition if you look at my memoir posts.Sewing, what the fuck? Thanks for reading Letters from Late Middle Age! Subscribe for free to receive new posts <div class="fa
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