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Roll for Zine is back with another season of making zines from prompts spurred by the rolls and whims of the dice! Check out episode one’s cryptid-themed mini, or print your own game sheet and play along.

Welcome to June, friends! Summer has been creeping up on me (it finally reached “close the windows and turn on the AC” weather), but its still nice enough out that I can enjoy my coffee and morning reads on the front porch. Lounging in my papasan chair and reading a great book or zine really sets me up for having a good rest of my day. Anyways, May was a big month for me! It felt blissfully long, and it was full of soul-nourishing moments. Here are a handful of the highlights that come to mind: 🌸🍓🐛 the garden The old adage about April showers bringing May flowers felt radiantly true […]

I’m launching a printed newsletter, and the first issue is all about embracing snail energy. Why? Well, it took me over a year to finally put the plan of writing a newsletter into action, so embracing the steady, slow pace of my favorite shelled creature felt fitting. I’m absolutely stoked on how issue one turned out, and I don’t think I would be able to say that if I had blustered my way through making this happen back when I had the idea many months ago. My zine projects need time to marinate. (I also had to work out some kinks in the process; a New Year newsletter that I sent […]

Every time that I tried to sit down and write this post, something about the empty textbox would give me a little pang of anxiety. I felt stuck. No words could patter out from my finger tips. I just stared and started at the great nothing as the cursor blinked its impatient toe-tap, only to eventually give up, open a new tab, and distract myself by scrolling reddit or refreshing the KCZC application spreadsheet and watching the number of potential tablers tick up and up and up.

March was really all about the music. Five shows — five perfect evenings — with coffee dates, zine stuff, bike rides, and quiet moments spent curled up in my reading nook tucked in between all that beautiful noise. Our traditional midwest winter hibernation has thawed and it is time to get out and get loud again. Time for socializing and song and dance.