Journal

About twelve years ago, I walked into a church building that wasn’t my own. I didn’t know anyone there. Across...

I have been sewing for more than 40 years, and some of the most important things I know about women...

Until a few years ago, I could not say the word out loud. Expert. I have forty years of hands...

A woman sat with me not long ago talking about she would love to get some of her clothes altered....

There is a very good chance there is a room somewhere right now that needed you in it, and you...

There is a very good chance you own something that has been quietly telling you you’re not good enough, and...

When my kids were little and someone asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, they said things...

I want to tell you something I spent most of my life not believing about myself. In the nineties, there...

My daughter was a feminist before I was. She would talk to me about patriarchy, about the way systems are...

I was in the Orlando airport on my way home from Disney World when I saw them. Three little girls,...

Every Morning It’s the Same Thing You open the closet and stand there, flipping through hanger after hanger. I have...

Some of the women who come to see me don’t own a full-length mirror. I noticed it a while back...