My words about craftivism were used in a definition of the term the other day for Planetgreen.com’s Green Glossary. Reading it has been making me think of the exact origins of the term when I started wondering about it.
After kind of guessing when I started talking about craftivism, I looked through some old [...]
There few things that I like more than projects that bring to light the visceral raw truth of situations. It’s so easy to ignore these things happening so far away. It’s frighteningly easy to have it fade into the background news and to have it happen to other people.
That’s one of the reasons I [...]
So it’s almost Thanksgiving here in the U.S., my most favorite of holidays for reasons like snuggliness and hugs and warm sweaters. Tomorrow I head to the Georgia coast, which means a few extra special things like late night talks with my grandfather when everyone’s asleep, knitting with my grandmother, long solo walks on the [...]
I wish I was having the above evening right now. The evening where I cooked dinner with friends (who are in massage therapy school and made me able to turn my neck to the right again after sleeping weird), ate homemade apple crisp, played a game, and drank hot chocolate prepared by an ex-barista.
Instead, [...]
Two new projects have been brought to my attention lately, which I’d like to share, both of which are accepting donations until December 10th. Both of these projects are not only for wonderful causes, but they are both for causes that are very near and dear to my heart for two very different and very [...]