In Defense of Shipping Fees

For the life of me I just don’t understand why people bitch about shipping fees when they shop on the internet.   Running an internet business is not the same same thing as running a brick-and-mortar store.  When your order on-line someone picks your order, packs it, checks it and ships it to your [...]

Strange Days

Last weekend I was at a dance competition (the saga of Abby’s costume will be the subject of another blog post!) It was the first one of the season and not one of the major events so the quality of the dance and choreography was pretty uneven.  I saw one piece that just [...]

Snark Attack!

Today I almost outted someone on a sewing web site! I was so, so close…..fortunately I came to my senses.This person made a thinly disguised snarky comment on a project of mine, and after giving it some thought, I realized that a better way to deal with my miffed feelings would be to blog instead. [...]

Think about this for a second

One of the things that really mystifies me about the internet is how many people don’t seem to understand what they give up, and can’t get back, when they blog about really personal stuff to a vast audience of anonymous strangers.  The internet is not a hippie commune where we’re all in this together, and [...]

“I’m not an attorney but I play one on a message board”

Every once in a while, and this is as predictable as the tides, questions about intellectual property issues such as trademark and copyright crop up on sewing message boards and forums. And just a predictably, people who are not attorneys seem compelled, for some inexplicable reason, to dispense legal advice.

Now granted, anyone can offer their [...]