My Handiwork
March 2023 While the world outside rages with rain and snow and recessionary lunacy, I’ve been busy, wearing my little fingers to the...
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- Feb 16
The Trail Ahead
16 February 2023 Yesterday, I spent a couple of hours hand-stitching edging and sewing new buttons onto a rather plain blouse. I’ve...
- Dec 24, 2022
The Shopping Quilt
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....
- Nov 11, 2022
Jack Jones - Lady
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...
- Oct 31, 2022
Black Sheep - Black Cat
Halloween 2022 I was a Black Sheep long before I was a Black Cat, although my beloved and dearly departed black cat, Annabella, would,...
- May 15, 2022
The Sophia Quilt
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...
- May 7, 2022
In Search of . . . Magic
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...
- Mar 20, 2022
Sewing Away - Introduction
Spring 2022 Because my writing work is so intimately involved with my love of beautiful textiles, and my work with sewing (particularly...
- Apr 19, 2020
The Art Square
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...
- Jun 1, 2018
Anonymous Was A Woman
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...
- May 29, 2018
The Artist and Society
Memorial Day 2018 I write this essay with a bit of outrage because of my training, my temperament, my talents, my interactions with...
- Sep 4, 2017
Sewing Project
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...
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