I’ve been coming up with a little word for each year since 2013 (though I haven’t always written about it). I don’t always do a great job of keeping the word on my mind through the year — last year’s word, experiment, didn’t come up much in my daily life …
I use my morning pages as a conversation with myself pretty often, and this pep talk for creatives came out in pieces over days. It’s what I needed to tell myself; maybe you need someone to tell it to you, too. First, can we just establish that this last the …
Many, many years ago, when I was just starting to write about knitting as part of my job, I picked up a copy of Knitting without Tears by Elizabeth Zimmermann. I don’t even know what led me to it. Probably I read somewhere that it was a knitting classic. Maybe …
I started writing this post about my One Little Word about a month ago, but I never finished. After looking back at the progress I made in January I figured it was still worth sharing. It’s never too late to come up with a word. I’ve been using the concept …
Being a dabbler is a great way to learn new things. It’s probably the way we’re all supposed to be. I spent the weekend with a few of my favorite kick-ass ladies at our self-styled working retreat lovingly acronymed tcoyos. We’ve been doing this for more than three years and, …
I’ve been on a “Hamilton” fast all month. The cast recording and the mixtape. It’s been really hard for a person who listened to one or the other most weeks for the past eight months or so. But there was a really good reason for it. (And I was reading …
A super-short film about creativity has inspired me, and it will inspire you, too. This is so good. If you need to cry today, or have a transcendent experience, hang with me for a few. The short film Alike had been on my radar for a while, but I finally …
