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    When You Really Mean It(Post)

    There's something I've only discovered through the experience of being a calligrapher, printer, and bookbinder that I didn't anticipate when I started out: the jobs that come my way are extraordinari ...

    When the Panic Sets In(Post)

    I have mentioned a time or two that I’m working on a sizable project that will launch very soon. Truth is, I am starting to get extremely scared — scared being a gross understatement. Pet ...

    The World Inside of Your Living Room(Post)

    There was a time in my past when life was lived at such opposite extremes I could hardly make sense of the experience. It happened in the months after we brought our identical twin girls home. We wer ...

    Vintage Stamps, Reimagined(Post)

    Something rather upsetting has happened to me over the past year. I've had the opportunity to go to two stamp shows, which is honestly one of my most favorite ways to spend a Sunday, and I had to ref ...

    Germination(Post)

    One of the things we've been most excited to work on, since moving, is establishing a garden. My husband is gung-ho about growing our food, and there is, in my opinion, no earthly experience quite li ...

    Poetry for the (Little) People(Post)

    It’s not that I don’t appreciate Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein as much as the next gal. In fact, On Beyond Zebra and If I Ran the Circus are two of my most beloved books from childhood, ...

    On Chasing Quiet(Post)

    When I was about to become a mother for the first time--to twins--I had one major worry. It wasn't the sleeplessness I was about to be subjected to. It wasn't the work of diapers and nursing and food ...

    What Small Business Success Looks Like (Do you know? If so, can you tell me?)(Post)

    I've been reflecting a lot upon small business ownership this year, and I realized that among the wide variety of challenges involved in starting a business, one is this: there are no predetermined ...

    Lessons from Steve(Post)

    The hardest thing about getting lost in a book is having to find your way back out of it when you finish the last page and close the cover. One of my hardest reentry periods was the time I finished E ...

    The Year in Reading(Post)

    As I have mentioned, I fell back in love with reading this year after an upsettingly long dry spell. Although it feels shameful to admit, I don’t think it’s uncommon — especially wh ...

    Poetry by Post, 4.0(Post)

    Before I opened my shop, I wanted to be an English professor. Not just wanted, but did all the things. Took the classes. Wrote a dissertation. Defended it. Applied for a small handful of jobs. So suf ...

    The Great Postage Puzzle(Post)

    Growing up, my brother and sister and I would play a game that only rural, bored-out-of-their-brains kids could dream up. It was called Puzzle Factory, and the basic premise was that we completed p ...