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Catch-as-Catch-Can
Given that writing this and my other blogs is something I genuinely enjoy, it says a lot about my state of mind when I start to disappear from the Internet. All semesters begin to get rocky a couple...
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What Calligraphers Do
My sister-in-law and I were chatting last weekend, and she asked what projects I had coming up. Well, I rattled off, I’m going to write out a poem that will be a surprise gift, do tattoo designs...
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New Studio Updates
Hello again! I’ve been on what has turned out to be an extremely long hiatus from this little spot. Much has changed in my life over the past few months (for starters, I live in Nebraska now), and...
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Thesis Recap
At some point many moons ago, I said I was planning to take photos of my thesis project to document the broadsides as well as the envelopes. Well, I finally had the opportunity to make good on that...
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Hallowedding!
A little over a year ago, I was contacted by a client who was planning to elope on Halloween and who wanted a wedding certificate to commemorate the day. I wasn’t actively taking commissions, given...
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Calligraphy Crush: John Stevens (and Three Cheers for Cheerio)
For years, I have heard whispers of a place where calligraphers go. A retreat center in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina where the view is spectacular, the people amazingly kind, and the...
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Feather in My Cap
Why, lookie there. That is the latest issue of the one and only Letter Arts Review, featuring — eek! — an essay about my thesis project and some grandiose ideas, too, about poetry’s place in our lives....
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Just Like Heaven
Being a mom of little people, I read a lot of picture books. And I often find them ever as applicable to adult experience as to anything kids go through. For instance, in a picture book by Patrick...
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Back in the Saddle
Yeehaw! New year, clean slate, blank page — and high time to revive this neglected little blog o’ mine. I somewhat unintentionally stepped away for a while last year while I was getting my new...
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Taking a Stab
Although I’ve had multiple bookbinding classes and workshops by this stage of the game, I had never yet formally learned the structure of the Japanese Stab Binding. But when Linda Gentry, an Omaha...
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