What Do You Want to Make Today?
When I learned about All Done Monkey’s 31 Days of ABC series, I knew I needed to handle Y so I could talk about ways to play with yarn with kids. The girl has been immersed in yarn her whole life, but she is always excited when I make a project or an activity basket […]
When I was in New Mexico, we spent the evening of the autumnal equinox huddled in the zendo, sheltered from a cold rain, talking about and writing haiku. That may be the most pompous sentence I’ve ever written. Still. Traditionally in America we think of haiku as being three-lined poems, with an emphasis on nature, […]
It starts around the weekend of the first college football game. We want to call it fall, but that’s in August so everyone knows it’s not really fall. Then there’s Labor Day, when the rest of the country can declare it to be fall but we are still sweltering same as ever. September is not […]
I know not everyone who reads this site is a writer, and I know that writing is not the only way to be creative, but establishing a writing practice is an act of creativity that I think can help a lot of people be more creative, even if they don’t primarily create with words. What […]
We have a fall wreath that I made last year, which I like because it can hang from September to November without looking out of place. But this year I really wanted to do an easy Halloween wreath to celebrate the season. After making those felt butterfly wings for the girl’s birthday, I had a […]
I used to have a blog called Freelance Coach, where I wrote about the business of being a freelance writer/creative person. I shut it down a long time ago, but I kind of miss it. I think I need to start writing about those subjects again. When I was first starting out as a freelancer, […]
Last year I bought a couple of fairy garden pieces with a Halloween theme, a little witch fairy, a pumpkin and a little black cat. (I’m not finding them available but I love these harvest signs, witch and little ghosts as an alternative.) I didn’t do anything with them last year, but this year I […]