by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
Picture a nine-year-old and her little brother singing, There once was a union maid who never was afraid of goons and ginks and company finks…and you’ll have a snapshot of our 1970s social-activist household.The Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie albums were spinning...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Utopic dream work is now an unwieldy mass​​As soon as my coffee arrived in bed early Friday morning (don’t hate me) I jumped on Reddit to try to find news of the latest cyber snafu, because my regular first source of news was offline.I found this, best read in Laurie...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
San Francisco Pride float, 2022 (Carlyn Yandle photo) Two years ago to the day of this writing, my sweetie and I arrived in downtown San Francisco the day before the Pride parade and the day after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade.​By the time the Dykes...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
Morning dew hangs like pearl strands on spider silk. Carlyn Yandle photo ​I have a love-hate relationship with spiders. I will jump out of my skin if I find a big hairy mother in my bedsheets like anyone else but if I come across a particularly elaborate spider web, I...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Confundo. (I am confounded.)Never mind that I arrived in a medieval city in Mexico in the middle of the night after a stomach-churning 10-hour bus ride from the coast. Never mind that the next night was the most confounding U.S. election in history. Just the physical...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
LEFT: Part server’s apron, part tool belt. Right: Detail of a finished Work Wrap. Photos by Carlyn Yandle TOP: Free Store jeans and work shirts, fresh out of the solar-powered washing machine. ABOVE: A display of 10 Work Wraps, sold out at the Lasqueti Island...
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