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Pottery, Knitting, and Domestic Violence
I haven’t written a lot about pottery lately. There are so many things going on that make my heart ache. On October 18, 1999 my friend, classmate, and teammate Maggie Wardle was brutally murdered by her ex-boyfriend on the campus of Kalamazoo College. Even now, typing that sentence makes my eyes well with tears, but [...]
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Throw Down
Throwing down is a way to fix a problem area in your pottery on the wheel. Throwdown is also a term used to describe a fight, which could also be an accurate description for working on the wheel! This past year has been a fight to grow my business and now you can see how [...]
Trayvon Martin and The Curse of Slavery
If you are not familiar with Trayvon Martin’s story I will sum it up briefly. Martin was a 17-year-old unarmed black male that was shot dead by a 28-year-old neighborhood-watch volunteer George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012. This is an oversimplified version, but you can Google Trayon Martin for all the details. Martin’s story is [...]
