Author of Sheila Says We're Weird and Defenders of Dirt. Promoting creativity, craft, cooperatives, and communities of care. I believe ideas can inform and inspire positive actions.
We create routes and routines to enable ourselves to conduct our lives. These allow us to carry out mundane tasks on autopilot. They also provide the necessary order undergirding the selves and communities we are always in the act of constructing. These mental and physical maps can be disrupted by
Let's jump right in. After November's election, I wracked my brain for a constructive response. Knowing what those first four years were like, I couldn't imagine how we'd withstand another round. Feelings of futility set in. But I took heart in the
Greetings! Welcome to my site. I write from a little patch of ground in upstate New York, along the Mahicannituck river. Now known as the Hudson, it is the river that flows both ways, home of the people of the waters that are never still--the Mohicans who greeted Henry Hudson