31 Days of Leaves: #leaftober 2021
October is usually my favorite month. But this one was different. This one was hard. Instead of doing...
Notes from International Nature Journaling Week, 2021
International Nature Journal Week (INJW) is an annual celebration of all things natural and journal-able. This year it...
From Raw capture to Rich memory
3 steps to a Soundscape Nature Sketch As an avid nature journaler, I love to go out into...
A “run-the-pen-dry” experiment
It’s Spring and the crushing deadlines of teaching college in a pandemic are crushing my soul. One way...
Copper Spoon…then and now…
During 2020 (and the awful pandemic) I started gardening, both indoors and outside. To get to know these...
What’s in my kit?
A tour of the things I commonly use in Nature journaling * During the Wild Wonder conference in...
Inclusive Design & the New American Dream: August de los Reyes @ CCA
Each year, the Design Division at California College of the Arts hosts a design lecture series featuring leading...
New semester, new project.
This idea has been banging around in my head for a couple of years: short videos that cover...
Born with a copper spoon…
It looks like a regular plant, but upon touching it, it feels like a succulent (which is it.)...
Jade: the jewel of the garden
Seems like everyone in the Bay Area has a Jade plant because these plants like the weather and...