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A vlog for snail mail society members featuring: Earth Day festivities, Wanderfest wanderings, a garden update, a Youtube update, and more!

Local folks: this March, I’m teaching TELL YOUR OWN STORY: a free, four-part workshop series and the first session starts this Wednesday! Join me for an interactive writing workshop celebrating perzines: handmade magazines featuring personal memoir writing.

January feels, simultaneously, like the beginning of the year… and a moment of reflection and contemplation before the year’s true start come spring… and part of an endless continuum that stretches on and on. I’m trying to cultivate the feeling that this image of rabbits that I found on tumblr gives me: a silk-soft, cozy warmth, a sleep ripe for dreaming. Hibernation. But, that being said, somehow my calendar has already filled up for January. Time stops for no mouse! When I reset my altar at the start of the month, I drew a card from my favorite deck (the Slow Holler tarot) to represent my year: the 9 of Vessels, […]

Like many zinesters, I’m a journaler. A daily diarist, note-taker, recorder, and doodler. If I don’t write something down I tend to forget it, and while I rarely re-read my diaries, there’s just something about the act of writing that helps the memories gel. Which is all just to say that I’ve got a pretty sizeable collection of journals that I work out of.

A funny thing happened at Zine Club on Tuesday. I was sitting in the library, chatting with Chez and Heather, when two new folks showed up with a shoebox chock-full of zines to share. That isn’t too unusual, as from time to time someone will search “zines in Kansas City” or see a post on the library’s instagram and turn up for a meeting or two…