Made By Humans
I’ve been seeing a lot of stuff lately about making your own sketchbooks and art journals, and I thought it would be a great use for some of the embarrassingly massive collection of paper I have. I wanted to spread the process out over several days because we don’t need to rush, and it’s fun […]
This month’s topic for #NWArkCares is civil rights. It’s another one that’s hard for me to write about. I feel like, as a white, straight person, I don’t have a right to talk about racism, bigotry and homophobia. I will never understand — as much as I can empathize, or try to imagine what it […]
Another thing I found while cleaning my office, in addition to the magnetic poetry kit, was a bunch of old business cards. These are from my job at About, which I still have, but the email address on them is no longer valid, and the company hasn’t been part of the New York Times Co. […]
I’ve been cleaning my office this month, and I recently came across a bottle of magentic poetry words I’d kind of forgotten I had. Do you have some of these? They’re actually a lot of fun. If you’re somehow unfamiliar with the concept, it’s a collection of random words on magnets. You grab some and […]
Since this week has been all about you and your favorite things, I thought it would make sense today to make something using your favorite color. Mine is green, and I decided I wanted to paint something. I happened to have this big blocky square canvas I bought somewhere on clearance a long time ago, […]
I like to have some kind of a plan when it comes to these challenges, but this one went a long way from what I had planned for today. Which is great, because I love it. Today I want you to start by thinking about some of your favorite books and authors, the words and […]
When I was teaching the kids a little sewing at school yesterday, I started out with how I like to tie a knot for hand sewing. I thought this was pretty basic — and it is — but it kind of stopped everyone in their tracks. Even the adults in the room didn’t know this […]