My Substack

Have you ever launched a new web site? I have. Six or seven times now. It’s really hard. It plays with your sense of timing. You think it will never be done or ready, right up until the minute it goes live. And then, suddenly, it’s there in the…

I did not enjoy January. It was a month dominated by my conflicting urges to scream as loudly as possible and hide in heartbreaking silence. And that was just when I read the news. It was a month filled with divisiveness and pain. Literally, I had the…

Do you ever feel like life is not happening on time? I do. It manifests as the fear of wasting time—not minutes in the day as much as decades. It includes saying things like, “It’s too late for me to do this,” or “This should have happened…

So . . . I sort of like this video blogging thing (vlogging, I believe, is the actual term). After I get beyond the fact that I look like a doofus, it’s sort of fun to experiment with the medium. I might do it more in 2017, or I might not. We’ll…

Are you searching for a holiday gift for someone who . . . Loves to sew? Is crafty? Digs vintage stuff? Likes reading about women’s history? I have a wonderful gift idea for you: My book, Sew Retro! I have a big inventory of books, and I’m…