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Design educator, chronic question-asker, and firm believer that the defaults were made to be adjusted. Writing about creative practice, burnout, and what happens when you stop pretending the system is fine.
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The Snowglobe Won’t Settle (opens the original)
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My inbox and feeds are a firehose of anxiety.LinkedIn notifications. A newsletter about newsletters. Reddit threads. Conference lineups. Job postings that now list “AI experience required” like it’s a certification you can go get on a Saturday. Everyone is trying to get my attention about AI as if I don’t already know it’s everywhere. I teach Design. I open my laptop for a living.The framing is always the same. Here’s what’s coming. Here’s what you’re missing. Here’s the industry in five years.
Being {Intention}al in Fall 2026 (opens the original)
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Tis the time of the summer where the “summer scaries” set in for me. I’m on a quarter schedule, and while it may have seemed like I took the summer off, I was actually quite intentional with my time.I rolled right in from submitting my final grades of Spring 2026 to working a residency for Vermont College of Fine Arts at CalArts. I spent some time at home, and then was back on a flight to have my pretty little mind blown at TypeCon in Portland.Now that I’m back, it’s time to start prepping. Prob
TypeCan '26 (opens the original)
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This trip started on the tails of a disaster. I’ve already written about the Spokane fires, so I won’t get into those details here. But I will say I almost didn’t take the trip. Once again, my husband was the voice of reason, calm and convinced it would all work out.And it did.For those who aren’t familiar, TypeCon is an annual conference presented by the nonprofit Society of Typographic Aficionados (
A Movie on the Garage Door (opens the original)
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The Old Trails Fire started around noon on Saturday, August 1st. Autumn Lane and Fairview came up close behind it, and by Sunday morning the three of them had been folded into one incident with one name: the Spokane Area Fires.I want to say this part first, because it’s the part people need. Ben and I are fine. The house smells like a campfire that got badly out of hand. That’s the extent of it. We’re safe.A lot of people are not.Not my first dance with fire…There’s a muscle memo
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