May 13, 2020 | Creative Living, making & doing
WHAT A STRANGE and unsettling time we’re in, suffering the coronavirus pandemic. Two months of self-isolation and at least we can say we have managed to master the mechanics the situation: living separate, working from home, properly logging in to Zoom....
Jan 22, 2020 | ideas & inspiration, Creative Living
In my newsletter, Grace Notes, I mentioned what joy, and grounding, I found in working through Laura Tremaine’s 10 Questions for the End of the Year. I loved it so much I bought a new Leuchtturm1917 Journal specifically for that purpose. I’ve continued to...
Jan 4, 2020 | ideas & inspiration, Creative Living
AND SO IT IS a new month, in a new year, in a new decade*. It is a season that has found my soul unusually quiet, unusually uninspired. I have not made a list of resolutions, for one. Nor have I made the counter list “Things From Last Year I Am Proud Of,”...
Nov 22, 2019 | ideas & inspiration
IT’S BEEN 13 weeks or so since Tim and I first had a casual conversation about listing our Bickley’s Pond home for sale, and today, as I write this, I find myself standing at my desk in a new (to us) downtown house in my new studio space–a pretty...
Oct 20, 2019 | ideas & inspiration
IT IS NO coincidence, of this I am certain, that as I took five minutes this morning to flip through my recently ignored inbox, Maria Popova had sent me this via her always illuminating Sunday Brain Pickings newsletter: What, then, of autumn — that liminal space...
Feb 13, 2019 | ideas & inspiration
AND HERE WE ARE in February, halfway through, heading full speed into March, and spring, and the mayhem that will arrive as May. It will hit with the force of a thousand obligations: end-of-school examinations and sports banquets and graduation parties and business...
