Mushrooms and more for troubled times

Handmade quilts of found fabrics layer up multiple meanings

Depicting a distracted mind might not be helping

I’m betting its bite will be worse than its bark

From rolling your eyes to sinking in sawdust ​ Like a dream it was: A half-a-million-strong pink procession on Washington, a sea of singing, shouting, laughing people, surging forward in the shared…

Past failures are invaluable teaching tools ​ This is my picking-up-the-pieces post, which is literally what I’m doing these days (and late nights). With the outlook looking very dark indeed I…

Making ourselves whole through making ​ First there is shock. I saw it in a coffee shop in a small US city the morning Trump was elected — again. The place was full but hushed. “Are you…

Working out those wrinkles is so satisfyingIf you’re uselessly wringing your hands right about now, pump some iron. Hear me out: Ironing is  useful , which, in the few days left before the US…

This craftiest time of year is laced with pain ​ When you’ve recently lost a loved one, certain annual occasions are rough: Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries. For me, it’s Halloween. That’s…

The Wet Coast is no place for this fuzzy fantasy​ ​ The trees are sun-kissed radiant red and gold as I hunker down to write this, in that little sliver of crisp and dry days between the months of…