• Trying To Put The Fun In Functional

    Remember when I used to make things and sell them? I’m trying again. 1. I make items that some people think are beautiful. Some people think they’re functional. A few of you think that they’re both. And they are! I know this from personal experience. 2. I have So Much Stuff. Just in general, without even categorizing any of it. I live in a glorified studio and between two people and one dog, we just have too much. Someone, somewhere is going to want it. Even if it’s just from a sustainability issue. Because every day, I get closer to just trashing almost everything.  3. Support a small, almost business!…

  • Loss and Other Unexpected Feelings

    My dad is really, truly gone. He was really, truly gone the day he passed away. It’s been over 3 years. Ask me what I did yesterday and I probably couldn’t tell you (I often joke I have the memory of a goldfish), but I remember that phone call. That phone call took 5 years to come, so a tiny part of me felt relief; I no longer had to fear when it would happen. An unknown someday became a very concrete today. But my entire world ended, and yet, life around me went on. The world continued to spin, and people went about their daily lives like nothing changed.…