From the Ridiculous to the Sublime
After sixteen months of being sequestered at home and only seeing people with masks on their faces, this past month has been a whirlwind of activity. Santa Fe is filled with tourists once again, and our summer festivals are back, even if at a reduced scale. It never rains, but it pours. In addition to teaching two overlapping workshops on zoom, I also had two overlapping sets of old friends come into town. I was…
Pie are Round
In the summer of 1990 my former husband and I moved from southern California to a little town outside Corvallis, Oregon called Philomath (which means ‘lover of learning, especially a student of mathematics’). We bought our first house there, a sweet little 1940’s bungalow that had a concord grape arbor that spanned about 16 feet across the back of the house. It grew so prolifically that if I didn’t prune it back assertively every week…
Welcome!
Welcome to my first blog post ever! This is not something that I had ever even thought of doing before, but life is very different now and it’s clear that I need to adapt to the times and have other ways of connecting with you. In early March I flew to Washington DC to attend an annual board meeting for Andean Textile Arts, and followed that with a three-day workshop in rural Virginia. When I…