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A tv set with the thumbnail from Dayna's latest vlog. Click on it to watch the vlog if you're part of the snail mail society.

vlog – wanderfest haul, garden update, earth day


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




catmothcrow chronicle – april 2026


This month’s snail mail society envelopes are on their way to mailboxes all over the world! As I checked off each address from my snail mail planning spreadsheet, I noticed that this month’s newsletter is the twelfth I’ve sent since starting this project… the snail mail society is almost a year old, y’all!




I’m teaching a perzine workshop (and other zine-y news)


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.




catmothcrow chronicle – february 2026


Hey y’all! We’re almost halfway done with February, which means that another batch of snail mail society goodies are making their way through the postal system and to mailboxes all over the country (and one’s even traveling all the way to Switzerland!) ⋆。°✩ I think this month’s issue of the catmothcrow chronicle looks especially lovely, as the collages have a sort of grunge-y fairytale feel to them. The newsletter features my picks for the Oscars, a spotlight on one of my favorite artists — you’ll have to read the zine to know just who it is that I’m spotlighting, but I’ll give you a hint: I think of them as my […]


A stack of sketchbooks and journals

my many journals


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.