I know what I saw on Jan 6, 2021.
I know what I saw on Jan 7, 2026

Why can’t we all get along?

I make handmade cloth dolls with big personalities and quiet jobs. Some are here to make you smile. Some are here to keep someone company through a tender season. Most are a little of both. I only charge for shipping.

Lift your voice. Now.
Music by Jesse Welles

Lu Chekowsky
POV: A WOMAN WHO IS ALIVE ON EARTH IN 2026

Brenton Zola

At the center of all of this is not the doll. It is the human need to belong, to soothe, to be needed, and to feel safe.
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I’m trying benivolency this year.

Reading the news these days is like reading The Onion.

It is literally Hunger Games out here grocery shopping. Scared, suspicious people pushing pushing crippled carts. Every shopper for themselves!

Things are scary enough for us. We have a “before” context that sharply contrasts with it all. I feel for the young ones coming up in all this. This is their normal. They don’t have a felt sense of, although not perfect, of structural norms. How will they turn out?

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It's been a extraordinary horrific week among a steady diet of horrific weeks. Hang on people. Take relief in your local life; your sanctuary, your creativity, your people, your pets. Hang on to them tight.

To hone my voice, I read everything, from books to cereal boxes, three times: once for fun, the second time to learn something new about the writing craft, and the third time was to improve that piece.

Amanda Gorman

I've been angry crying all day over the horrific murder in Minneapolis.