I started Mothership HackerMoms a couple months ago for creative and wannabe creative moms. It’s the first women’s hackerspace ever in this international organization… Continue reading

I made butter, did printmaking, wore a giant pink beehive wig stuck with HackerMom stickers…oh, wait, this is for my kids? They had fun, too. Made me realize that I may be here to stay… Continue reading

Fucked up: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576059713528698754.html?mod=e2tw. As the estranged victim of one of these emotional abusers, I don’t – to put it mildly – buy it. It surely makes for childhood academic success, but it also makes for uncreative… Continue reading

Awesome doodle tips: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/12/how_to_doodle.html. The key to being un-self-conscious in art points to doodling, that daydreamy scribbling of bored kids.  Can doodling be learned? Seems like an important and immediate way to attach your arm… Continue reading

I can’t think of a greater thing I did for myself than have this birthweek in which I was uncharacteristically kind to myself every day. Here’s a list of self-centric things I’ve always wanted to… Continue reading

There’s no unsexier place I longed to experience than the  marsh that edged the Dumbarton Bridge between Fremont and Menlo Park. They’re now officially the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge, but were once known… Continue reading

I’m turning 39 on December 22, a tipping point age, so I carefully considered my options. I’ve decided to take the whole week to celebrate. I’ve decided to celebrate alone. Instead of an iPhone, my husband gave me time and space. He paid for full time winter camp for Scarlett. I’m using Julia Cameron’s concept of the “artist date” from The Artist’s Way to take myself out every day for a date. Or not me exactly, but my inner creative self, the intuitive, curious child-artist who always got shoved off to the side, was told to wait, told it was too expensive, was told no to all her burning desires… Continue reading

My creative group Idealand met last night, trying out our informal, subject-skipping, right-brain, wine-induced format at Cesar in Oakland with great success. Better than the other 3 meetings with suffocating left-brained presentations, timekeeping, etc… Continue reading

The book Montessori Madness: A Parent to Parent Argument for Montessori Education. Amazed at how 50 preschoolers could happily wait for everyone to get their food from… Continue reading