Adventures in Exploration

explore you

I don’t really even know how long I’ve “known” Tara Swiger. I met her online probably when Twitter was starting to get big, and she was a yarn producer getting ready to quit her day job and follow her passion. In the years since she became a full-time yarn maker, then started sharing her secrets […]

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Stalled Out

dirty brush painting

I’ve been trying to write a blog post for days about the creative letdown that comes after a really big accomplishment, like writing a book. Or at least it comes for me. Even though I finished my part of the book months ago, having it in my hands, knowing its a real thing out in […]

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Places I’ve Been Lately

It seems like I’ve been doing nothing but writing guest posts lately, which is not exactly true, but there has been a bit more of it than usual this week. First, my pal Amanda, who shared her tips on subscription boxes earlier this week, hosted me at Let’s Talk Learning, the blog component of the […]

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Where I’ve Been Lately

My writing has been turning up all over the place lately, which is just the way I like it. If you don’t follow me as obsessively as I do, here’s an update. My Summer of No Pants post was featured on Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky!, which is the blog behind the movement. Since I made that […]

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Write a Blurb for Your Life

blurb your life

There’s a lot of stuff happening right now that keeps me from wanting to work. There’s the news, of course, which is hard to resist checking in on even when there’s nothing new happening. I’ve been nursing an injury that has my right hand and arm not feeling well for more than a week, which […]

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