Rather than tell you about my transition from 2025 to 2026, I'll tell you how that transition reflects the greater transition of who I am today, and how I became it. My teen and college years were wrought with "no's," "anti's," and "against's." After an upbringing of embracing being an outcast, my adulthood has surprisingly... Continue Reading →
How can making a rice & beans dinner on a Wednesday have anything to do with celebration - especially celebration of steadiness? Hello, it's been nine months and a day since my last blog post, but I'm back, and doing just fine. 🙂 Daily writing promptWhat are you doing this evening?View all responses Seriously, I'm... Continue Reading →
As I near the end of 2024, I impulsively wrote this blog post half-heartedly attempting to make sense of my emotions. This is a blog, not an official and important website, eh? Just to contradict the rest of this post 🙂 - I live a fruitful, adventurous, and comfortable life. I am very grateful for... Continue Reading →
If this is what it means to be an artist, then I beg the universe or God or whoever or whatever to release me. This excerpt was written a couple of weeks ago and yet reading it aloud for the video made me cry, again. If anyone else relates to this, please speak up, I'm... Continue Reading →
Although my poetry skills are merely intriguing at best, here are some nature poems for you. Two of which were written recently, the third written years ago. Magnet Poetry The beauty of magnet poetry is that the combination of the words provided for you generates its own meanings. With these, I closed my eyes and... Continue Reading →
If you thought you could make easy DIY garden beds, I'm here to encourage you to find out that you're wrong! By that I mean, garden beds are NOT easy to build, but not impossible, and totally worth it. Learn a little about how Pete and I made ours, and how we messed up. DIY... Continue Reading →
A quick study in Pink honors the April Full moon, pink Spring flowers, the woman's experience, and my next read: the Sherlock series. The April full moon is called the Pink moon because of this time frame's blossoming of the many-named plant; the phlox subulata, creeping phlox, moss phlox, most commonly referred to as "moss... Continue Reading →
Well, Ostara is already here, and it seems like Imbolc was just yesterday. That's two whole months ago! But hey, we're glad for it, because we've been looking forward to the Oden Brewing Spring Equinox Festival 2023 for months now. And by we I mean me and my seven personalities. Obligatory flyer to give you... Continue Reading →
Fulfilled my birthday wishes by deconstructing hustle culture with artistic expression - such was Art Club event number two! All photography by Brian Hornfeldt! Art as Social Practice TLDR: Society sucks, let's better it by throwing darts at paint balloons. Social Practice Art: what is it and why is it important? You tell me. https://youtu.be/0yS0oil4uB8... Continue Reading →
Let us celebrate the Worm Moon (the full moon in March) and the coming of Spring with announcements of upcoming products, events, and other content. The Worm Moon is named as such for the obvious reason of worms reappearing in early spring, but also for other types of worms like beetle larvae that "begin to... Continue Reading →
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