Everyone knows the saying, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Jeff Ferrel wrote in Empire of Scrounge that, “convenience becomes the mother of existential complacency.” If every desire one has can be met easily and[…]
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Everyone knows the saying, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Jeff Ferrel wrote in Empire of Scrounge that, “convenience becomes the mother of existential complacency.” If every desire one has can be met easily and[…]
In between turnings of the lever on my crank-powered radio, I perused the “Macrame Elegance II” catalog (copyright 1976). Several women in my family had gotten into making macrame plant hangers back in the seventies.[…]