This past month I’ve been contemplating the question of “am I professional writer or a blogger or is there a difference?” It’s an interesting question for me because more and more I’m writing for my living: through Craft Leftovers, Craft Leftovers Monthly, the Ames Progressive, on other websites, and various magazines. Most my day is [...]

I have been making a lot of headway clearing space for the things I love by getting rid of the things I’m “meh” about. Books are a hard topic for me because I love them so much in general and it’s taken me a long time to realize I don’t have to love each and [...]

Writing has become a daily practice for me. Whether for Craft Leftovers, email correspondences, letters to friends, articles, patterns, or in my journal I am writing all the time.  I feel my expertise is in two extremes — technical writing/structured essays (think art history research papers) and really casual writing…. how I’m writing now. And [...]