August Update
Alongside a few well-earned breaks for family camping trips, visits and other summery vacations, our team made some good progress in August. We finished the muslin Founder’s Circle samples that…
Break in the Letters
Dear supporters and faithful readers of the Weekly Letter: I am going to pause with the Weekly Letter for a few weeks. There are things that I need to attend…
For the love of the work
Monday night last week we got a curve ball on the Founder’s Circle fit sample patterns we were supposed to work on. We had to pause before we could sew…
A small Appalachian community
Over the weekend I began watching the Hulu show Dopesick – a disturbing and captivating story about Purdue Pharma, their drug OxyContin, the ruthless greed and lethal deception behind it…
Making It, Part 2
Today I am going to write on the topic of funding again, a follow on to the Making It post a few weeks back. Having reached the halfway point in…
June Update
June – six months into the year – felt aptly like the half way point for the Founder’s Circle work. This month we will be finishing the first round of…
Making It
I am writing today from the vulnerable place of working on funding applications: fellowships, grants, regional support – you name it. I had set this type of work aside for…
The speed of quality
I’ve been thinking about the act of creating quality work, why so much around us is of poor quality. I had an interesting thing happen at my day job that…
May Update
I want to start our May update with a personal update. I realized after my trip home that I could no longer work 5 days a week at my day…