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covering – artist’s statement
I cover nature. Daily drawings are digital finger painting atop photos, including collage-symbols made from other moments in time. These personal symbols are stored as stickers in my…
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Culture
Orion’s Party Hat
There’s not much to say here that hasn’t been said about Artemis program to – and around– the Moon. Watching, thinking, listening, and conversing about this go-round of…
Culture
Breaking Conventions
Remember when the Democratic party broke with proper convention (and conventions) to nominate Kamala Harris? As a decidedly left-leaning citizen I absolutely wanted Kamala to beat Trump in…
Mommess
Hope in coping mechanisms
Today is Easter Sunday, and I’m sitting at dining table, laptop nestled among mountains of near-folded clothes, purple and white towels, and underwear. I’m also sneaking in some…
Family
What happened to the chicken bag?
The types of explanations we received as kids about the mundane questions of life, alters how we develop our capacity for internal reasoning. Becoming educated with diversity of…
Creativity
What’s your best marketing plan?
Answer: the one you will actually do. No one needs to elaborate any more than this, but I will write like wild anyway because I’m a human who…
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Sushi Bake Beliefs
On Food Culture, Balls of Beliefs, Paradox, Music, and Menopause Yesterday my daughter found a recipe for a Sushi Bake, and I was immediately skeptical. Who wants to…
Mommess
Flip the bird like an artist
I love birds, including this one. Lately, I’ve been finding myself (and several of my friends) angry about how the world has been working. For us as individuals,…
Mommess
When you don’t have words…
say it another way. Sometimes forming essays that contain a beginning, middle, and end feels incredibly limiting, and not on target with what I’m working on… or through…
Mommess
weaving the www
With the wild west, a personal party, and thoughts on the web as a woman’s medium. Women’s work, I’ve been told by more than a few wise souls,…
Family
non-shop adventures and the underappreciated art of window shopping
Here’s a little story about non-shop adventures and participating in your local economy even when you aren’t flush with currency. It’s like flash-mobbing a business you love, but…
Culture
Release the Patriarchy
I have a social activist friend who occasionally warns folks what words folks should use in everyday conversation. Two words in question: army and just. I believe she’s…