I am a knitter, sewer, and general making enthusiast. I have been documenting this work here, in various forms, since 2008, when I left my newspaper reporting career and needed an outlet for my writing. If things had worked out differently, I’d still be chasing down leads and telling peoples’ stories. Unfortunately, I think the news business is long dead to influence, big money, and clicks.

By day, I am a library director at a progressive boarding school where I am dedicated to helping young folks have access to information, ability to decipher it wholly, and to inspire in them unending curiosity, and, of course, a reading life.

A citizen of Mvskoke Nation (Oklahoma), my Native identity informs every aspect of how I navigate the world. I care deeply about the art of Indigenous peoples and how it is represented.

My interests include land back, dogs, books, black coffee, newspapers, libraries, camping, skiing, tooling about Lake Winnipesaukee in my Boston Whaler super sport and music (I keep a mixcast over at Pulp + Circumstance if you like that kind of thing).

Please check out my Flickr to see most of my work, travel, and art. I also have knitting patterns for sale (and freebies, too) at ravelry.

I live outside Boston in a 1940s fixer upper with my beloved canine companion, Joni Mitchell. Rescued from the Ukraine, she is skittish. We work every day to embrace life and all of its unexpectedness.