23 October 2024 Don’t Tread on Me - The Annabella Quilt   Even though she is no longer physically with me, here, on Earth, October is...

Autumnal Equinox 2024 I know what I’m doing even when I don’t know what I’m doing.   Perhaps not many people can sincerely make that...

16 July 2024 Last week, I received a hand-knit sheep that I’d purchased online from an artisan who lives in Surrey, UK.  That locale is...

New Year 2024 This afternoon, I was perusing clothes on a selling-platform website and saw a category that I mis-read as: Woke and Duty...

Dead Week 2023 The first in a series of ten articles . . . For me, those words cause an immediate (if that’s fast enough) clicking away...

29 November 2023 It’s quite a feat, an actual coup — taking the Laptop in for repair-service during Cyber Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/EveryD...

Columbus Day 2023 Fourscore and seven years ago. . . Actually, it was only three years ago, but it feels like 87 since I first embarked...

March 2023 While the world outside rages with rain and snow and recessionary lunacy, I’ve been busy, wearing my little fingers to the...

16 February 2023 Yesterday, I spent a couple of hours hand-stitching edging and sewing new buttons onto a rather plain blouse. I’ve...

Christmas 2022 The Shopping Quilt Shopping is a woman’s art for what to hold and for what to part from: the past, or even the present....

11 November 2022 This afternoon, I pieced together my Shopping Quilt, listening to Jack Jones. I used to own CDs of Mr. Jones, but for...

Halloween 2022 I was a Black Sheep long before I was a Black Cat, although my beloved and dearly departed black cat, Annabella, would,...

Mid-May 2022 I am hard at work, writing THE LAST WALTZ. Its origins are complex and storied since this novel was conceptualized during my...

Early-May 2022 So many people choose to live in search of justice, or truth, and righting those wrongs that can only be rectified in...

Spring 2022 Because my writing work is so intimately involved with my love of beautiful textiles, and my work with sewing (particularly...

19 April 2020 Today, after a rather long hiatus of about six years from large-scale sewing projects, I started sewing a quilt. It’s...

June 2018 Anonymous was a woman, and so was I — at least until I left my government job. Back then, I was under-paid and...

Memorial Day 2018 I write this essay with a bit of outrage because of my training, my temperament, my talents, my interactions with...

Labor Day 2017 I have thus far not written any essay that is patently political, but I think it is time, in the name of fashion, to cry...