In honour of the quickly approaching peaceful Year of the Sheep and being kind to yourself, today we bring to you a new guest artist, Sehin. She’s currently living in Addis Ababa where she…
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arts & music sisterhood social media & technologyFighting Through Asian Shadows (My 5 Day Photo Challenge)
A couple of weeks ago, I was summoned on Facebook to do the do the Black and White 5 Day Photo Challenge. As a person who enjoys a good creative call to arms (have you…
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arts & music pregnancy & parenting relationships & love sisterhoodI Never Said I Was a Visual Artist
This is nothing like I had visualized in my head. It was going to be so grand. A beautiful use of natural or artificial light to convey a moment words would be hard…
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Cheney’s last post is right in my wheelhouse. I am a Costume Designer. I make my living by dressing others. I spend days at the mall, in fitting rooms, onset, gathering the pieces to…
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Ah, if only I had Bridget’s flair for design and illustration skills! Access to a great dressmaker and some HK fabric stores wouldn’t go amiss either. I’d immediately stop endlessly trawling malls and online…
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Ever since JoAnna’s impactful post A Lesson In Creating Space (or: I Have Been Taught To Grow In) I have been dwelling on the way we, as a society, respond to inappropriate behavior. I remember…
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culture & community relationships & loveA Straggler Creative Challenge (from the currently-pulling-all-her-hair-out-due-to-looming-deadlines grad student)
Briana’s historical, and practical, creative food challenge in tribute to the 64 years her grandparents were married and her grandmother’s extensive recipe collection from a life lived well. This is a straggler group creative challenge for the year…
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Reading previous posts by JoAnn and Cheney cast a few questions on my own skills at small talk. For some reason, living in Manila has alienated me from strangers or happenstance acquaintances. The streets,…
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I am the kind of person who sometimes talks to strangers, despite all the warnings. I’ve been thinking about Jo-Anna’s piece these last few days, in particular the ways in which I interact in…
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You’ll have to forgive me as I haven’t experienced a proper fall in roughly seven years, and when I say “fall,” I mean that period of time when forests of trees bleed all manner of crimson…