New Design for the Gift House Blog

By Martha | Published: September 20, 2012
My blog has a new design and title, but its mission continues: to document the strange and marvelous array of things that appear at our town dump’s swap shop, where locals browse and gab, share and swap, unload and load up. And where Harry Belafonte’s voice is always singing, Day O. My memoir about our family’s [...]
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MAGICAL CLOTHING: FARRAH’S JERSEY

By Martha | Published: September 15, 2011
I have a terrible habit of borrowing clothes. (Hand-me-downs are great too.) Here’s a light-hearted essay I wrote for today’s New York Times about the best thing I ever borrowed — a roller derby jersey worn by Farrah Fawcett on Charlie’s Angels. It tells how I got it. And, painfully, how I had to give it back. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/fashion/charlies-angels-didnt-look-that-sexy-without-help.html
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