Desert Agave
A Sermon and a Podcast
I’m overdue for sharing some things I’ve had the honor to participate in recently. First, I gave a sermon at First Unitarian of Albuquerque, called “A Daily Practice of Reliable Joy.” Its about how the fiber arts for me have brought a reliable joy to my life which strengthens me and allows me to have…
New Spinning Publication
I’m really proud to have an essay up at Ply Magazine’s blog: https://plymagazine.com/2025/02/the-woolly-animal-of-dawn/ This one is about spinning as mental-health self-care, and while I wrote it almost a year ago, it is so very applicable now.
A New Knitting Publication
I wrote On Being a Gift: Test Knitting as a Fat Person awhile back for Jen and Bess at One Wild Designs and they shared it in an email newsletter. I’d approached them after having a troubling experience test knitting for another designer, and they offered me the chance to write about it for them.…
Why I Knit
I started listening to Dr Mia Hobb’s Why I Knit podcast soon after I started knitting in 2023. Each episode interviews a different person about how knitting helps their mental health. Eventually, I decided to take a chance and reached out to her, saying I’d love to be a guest on her show. I was…
Two Publications
I’m long overdue to update here. I’ve had two publications since my last entry. I published my birth story, “Breathing Through” at Mutha magazine in two parts in September. And then, I published a memoir piece about my entry to the fiber arts, “Clothing Myself in Joy” in Body of Work. Both publications are meaningful…
A Publication in August
Yesterday the Atticus Review published my essay, Book of Proofs. I’m happy and proud to have the essay out in the world. I was asked recently why I choose to write about my mental illness. The fact of my writing about my mental illness is such a fundamental part of me that I rarely think…
Joy Brings Me Back
It has been no secret inside my head that part of the hope behind my year of chasing joy was that it would start to lead me back to writing. For a long time after my son was born, writing was a pursuit on the margins of my life. He simply needed me too much,…
The Year of Chasing Joy
At the start of 2023, I didn’t exactly make a resolution, but I sort of organically came to the conclusion that this was going to be a year of chasing joy. As in, I was actively going to pursue the things that bring me joy to fullest extent possible, without worries about what I “should”…
Doing it the Hard Way
I make excellent oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. The recipe isn’t a big secret. I found it online at the Quaker Oats site. But the cookies are chewy and just what a cookie should be. I think I like them even better than regular chocolate chip cookies. Almost three years ago I baked a batch for…
Special Breakfast
Every Sunday morning our family has what we fondly call Special Breakfast. I started making Special Breakfast on Sunday morning when my son was small, pretty much pre-verbal in fact. At first, I made the same pancake recipe every week. I remember one week my tiny son coming downstairs, seeing me at work in the…
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