Internet Bard

I try to keep the “social media madness” to a minimum here, because that’s not really what this blog is about. But this is where I document all my “life stuff” including career stuff, so I thought I would make note of it. And this post is really about the process of deciding what to [...]

“I’m George McFly. I’m your density.” We all get a little distracted from time to time. It’s not usually a big deal. In fact, a little distraction every now and then can lead to some creative breakthroughs. Fiber artist White Feather wrote a good article about this on Thoughtwrestling, another blog I where I sometimes [...]

I love crafts and sculpture. Particularly fiber arts. I like making useful, beautiful things. I hadn’t done much creative craft work in a really long time, though, because my craft supplies have been choked and buried under a bunch of supplies I inherited (aka “couldn’t let go of”) when my mom and grandma passed on. [...]

Thus far, my July has been all about subtraction. First, I declared Bandwidth Bankruptcy. I declared a cease and desist on all personal projects in process. I took nine days off work, while my husband and kids went out of town without me, and spent most of it clearing the almost all the clutter out [...]

I spent an unusual amount of time on Sunday staring into my closets. Before last week’s vacation, I considered using my abundant free time sans job, husband and kids creating content. I briefly entertained the idea of churning out stories, blog posts, videos and more of the digital ephemera that seems to represent my creative [...]