Wild Roses

Ever since I first saw wild roses in Minnesota as a teenager, I’ve been impressed by their beauty and simplicity. To think that we humans took a flower with a single layer of petals and created all the great diversity of roses. My grandma has a rose bush with bright pink and yellow flowers that [...]

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Hmmm, what is my style?

Made progress on a few more necklaces last night. I’m wondering what to call my slightly grungy, but with a little bit of elegance style. Not really steampunk, not really boho. Any ideas? Here’s one I made awhile ago but just put up on the site last night. I still have a bunch of necklaces [...]

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Pajama joy

Our wonderful house guest volunteered to take Grandma to her church function this morning, so I am lying around in my pjs with a quiet house and no fear of someone suddenly asking me to do something. There are so many things I could do–read the book for book club, work on the conference, make [...]

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gift worth

We tend to focus on the breakout successes of democratized culture-making. But there is also a great deal of creative expression out there of the type Hyde had in mind that nonetheless qualifies as an unwanted gift: the unlinked-to blog post, the unliked Facebook page, the unfavorited Flickr photo, the unwatched YouTube video, the unretweeted [...]

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Literature, Sorrow, and Anti-Depressants

Another contribution to this great question of our age (how anti-depressants will affect literature, or would have affected authors like Virginia Woolf and characters like Holden Caufield) on Studio 360 this week. It feels like a very, very personal question for me. On the one hand, it offers up great artists who suffered like I [...]

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Art on the tracks

So cool.

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sons without fathers

This is really beautiful–personal, universal, depth of thought, a hip hop cadence, and in that minor key I love so much.

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A new friend

A little earlier, I mentioned that I had a great idea for making black doll hair, but I had no doll to practice on. So I made one. I used the pattern and the cut out shapes for my Studio 360 redesign Valentine’s Day submission and then have spent the last few days working on [...]

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Damn and Blast and Happiness

Okedoke. So chapter one, all horrifying, ugly, awkward 70+ pages, is going to be transformed from a shy tween of a chronology into a confident professor type of a thematic chapter. How do I do that, though, damn it? Sort what I have into my three themes? Write new stuff? Write new stuff then mine [...]

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whirring

I came up with a fabulous idea the other day and am not sure how to make it work. Gma and I were wandering around the kids section of a bookstore looking for a present for the nephew/great-grandson. Gma being who she is, I was letting her pick it (let’s just say that for 93 [...]

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