A couple things: Number one: I am not retired! I m not old or rich enough to retire. I m taking a sabbatical to learn and grow or whatever. I am working on not allowing other people s needs or expectations to take up all my time. Truth be told it is not going well. Apparently, if you Read More [FBT] on Eyeballs and Enough
The Assignment Credentials vs. Instincts — Nell Painter enters art school with a PhD in history and is still treated as a beginner. Why does non-fiction and internet expertise fail to transfer legitimacy to my own creative writing? What does “validation” look like? Please Give Us an Extension “Stories are medicine. I have been taken Read More A2: Credentials vs. Instincts: Please Give Us an…
The Assignment Unit 1 asks me to reflect on why I don’t look at my creative work in the same way I look at other kinds of work. The Gatekeeper Story — Find a way to write about the moments when people discouraged my creative work. Think about times parents, teachers, authorities told me my Read More A1: Gatekeepers: Bitchslap with a Birkenstock
What am I doing? Not a Masters (NaM). Falling into what might be called female intuition, the legitimacy of art, and archetypes of the modern world, I am starting with a scan of lessons I’ve absorbed over the years about art and writing. Unit Readings: Why these two together Nell Painter wrote a memoir of Read More Unit 1: The Stories I Tell Myself
It’s time for me to work in the open again, so I am going to try to find some dialogue with you, whoever you are, existing reader. Hi, how are you? Every few years, as I spin out about what it is I want to be and who I am and the work I should Read More Not a Masters in Creative Writing
A festival. A wedding. A moment. A sudden death. Collective grieving. 3,632km driving on the left. Hiking and empty beaches, a fairy forest, a missing lake monster. Spontaneous car rental. A funeral. 40 degrees. 40 degrees again. Laying on the floor. Too hot to sleep. I need to buy toothpaste. Hello again. Hello Again is Read More [FBT] on Wear and Waffle
One of you once wrote me that Grief is strange, oddly supple, and rises up in very peculiar waves. Supple. Merriam Webster provides several definitions to this word that, when applied to grief, are so, so interesting. Supple is compliant often to the point of obsequiousness . Merriam Webster then uses the pairing fawning attentiveness to Read More [FBT] on Grief and Gardening
Writing writing of any sort, not just an email is a thousands-year-old technological hack to get around not being in person; but that doesn t mean that it is impersonal. Audrey Watters Maybe I m a sell out I gave Anthropic twenty dollars and I feel gross about it. Sorry and ashamed. I debated about Read More [FBT] on Sellouts and Savants
If I weren t going on sabbatical soon, and if I were so inclined to update my resume, I too would be highlighting the tech sovereignty work I ve done. It s not resume embellishment, just logical semantic evolution. Those of us who have been banging the drums of open source, decentralised, privacy, etc, etc, all this time Read More [FBT] on Sovereignty and Stacks
cross posted on the WAO blog WAO is working with INASP, an international development organization with over 30 years’ experience of working with a global network of partners in Africa, Latin America and Asia. our roadmap Although we re closing on May 1st, WAO has just got time to squeeze one more project. It s with INASP, Read More Rising Scholars: Sprinting with INASP