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Laundry Room Before & After
After receiving my most-recent rejection letter, I’ve decided it’s time to shelf the novel. Don’t worry. The tears have been shed and I’m trying (so far unsuccessfully) to comfort myself with...
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Fiction A bit of a departure from what I typically post here. I entered this in a short story contest last month. It’s a revised version of the first chapter of the novel I wrote last year. The day my...
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Secretary Desk Before & After
I am so over this desk. I picked it up for free after seeing it posted on Nextdoor and thought it would be a challenging DIY. I’d take my time with it, I told myself. Move slow. No big deal. Well....
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Back to the Drawing Board
Rising Strong? Summer has come and gone, one of my ghost writing projects is wrapping up, and it’s time to try again. After an unsuccessful run at finding an agent and/or publisher for my novel...
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Felted Bowl
Sometimes I need to get out of my head and create something with my hands. We were in California visiting family last week and I felt like I wanted to work on… something, anything with my hands....
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Cowls for days
I wrote earlier about the election and how I’ve been processing it. One thing I didn’t mention is that I’ve taken up knitting again. I know, that seems like a non sequitur but it’s not! After the...
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Felt & Leather Laptop Sleeve
Ok, it’s not really leather. But it sounds cooler to say felt & leather than it does to say felt and leatherette (or, heaven forbid, pleather). Either way, it’s a laptop sleeve. I’ve never...
View Articlea child’s birthday
image credit Another trip around the sun Another year of bones stretching, sinews strengthening Ever onward and upward and going, going, going, That’s the way, yes! No. Come back. Come back to me. Out...
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I’ve been dragging my heels with my second novel. I was so crushed by the failure (it’s ok, I’m ok, we can call it that) of the first one and have since been bogged down by serious self-doubt and...
View Articleprocessing by way of poetry
Image credit: Jason // Kayaking with Isaiah on Lake Washington last Saturday I’ve been processing something big recently and my usual forms of writing have not sufficed to help me make meaning of what...
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