Horns of the Dilemma
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...
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Jul 16
Grandpa Rupert
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...
Dec 31, 2023
Duty Apparel
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...
Dec 26, 2023
The Ethical Tweeds
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...
Nov 29, 2023
The Teapot Quilt
29 November 2023 It’s quite a feat, an actual coup — taking the Laptop in for repair-service during Cyber Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/EveryD...
Oct 9, 2023
Flying By the Seat of Our Pants
Columbus Day 2023 Fourscore and seven years ago. . . Actually, it was only three years ago, but it feels like 87 since I first embarked...
Mar 4, 2023
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...
Feb 16, 2023
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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