Category: Willows, Memories from Back Home
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My Nephew Sam Part 2
Mud dyeing is a technique that is said to be at least 1300 years old. Today it is most famously practiced on Amami Island in Japan. I became interested in this technique when I was just reading and watching videos…
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My Nephew Sam Following His Passion Part 1
My aunt Corey asked me to do a two part blog posts about myself. As she admires my work and has been collecting fabrics and buttons for me. You see I am a clothes designer- Well let me give you…
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The Small Town
Behind my Mother’s home are rice fields, canals, a walnut orchard, blackberry bushes, sheep, dirt roads, the Buttes, the Sacramento Valley, and years of seeding, toil, and life lived. I flew kites in these fields, rode motorcycles, fell, learned to…
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Ten Years Ago is Still the Same Today
Feet up against the dashboard, my brother drives, a trailblazing with dust grows behind us. A song rattles along with the shovels and beer cans in the back of the truck, Road signs with faded memories attached to them, one by…
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My Mother
L O V E ❤️ Saying goodbye is harder and harder. And I fear it will always be so.
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Being Home
One classic full throttle evening in my mom’s kitchen- My brother Mat a talkin- My family just hangin- My mom à baking- All of us just a being.