What Is Woven In

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An Equinox Postcard from the North
Spring is my least favorite season.
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"The world is not yet done."
on the wonderful little book "Art and Fear"
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How to Stop Writing
When I first started this newsletter, my intention was that I let my own interest guide what I wrote.
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The Way In
A Five Things Essay
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Lessons from the Loom
While my tapestry weaving feels and looks like “art” (whatever that actually means), the act of weaving on a floor loom feels ancient, connected to…
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Journal of a Solitude
On May Sarton's exploration of aloneness
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Hilarious, maddening, mortifying.
Using journals as a guide to writing a memoir.
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I Just Finished My Book
and now the real work begins.
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Leaving my career to be a housekeeper in the woods was the best thing I did for my art
On Thursdays, the laundry company dropped off a truckload of cleaned and ironed sheets, towels, and pillowcases.
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The Process of Weaving a Rug
Last week, I wove a rug.
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"Writing is Effort: Writing is Despair."
Quotes about the creative process from Virginia Woolf’s diary.
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A Month Without Instagram
As an artist who has built my entire business using Instagram, taking a break feels like a risk. If I don’t constantly remind people who I am and what I…
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