A million years ago, I bought a great big 11×14 sketchbook. I rarely use it (I focus mostly on my 7×10, since it’s travel size), but I drew a cover page for it when I first got it. I finally took it to the scanner yesterday (along with 3 others Read more…
In which Maggie meets a man on a train, and wonders about wandering.
This one is from Week 7–I’m still behind, of course. It was purchased by my great Aunt and Uncle Reed, in the DC area. Absolutely everyone is getting involved. It’s really great. 🙂
Still behind, of course, but I’m catching up. This is Week 6–purchased by my very supportive and awesome Mom, of Minneapolis storytelling-land fame. She’s doing a show at the MN Fringe this year.Â
This image, for Week 4, was purchased by my Aunt and Uncle in Olean, NY. Many thanks to them for their support! There are new Sharpie colors out now–and they are pretty exciting. Sharpie Neons are my long, long awaited light blue and light green. Previously I was using a Read more…
This piece is for Week 3 (forever ago, now) and was purchased by the amazing Madelin Zaycheck, an amazing photographer friend of mine in the St. Paul area.
In which Maggie nerds out about her new bike, and the commute to and from CPE down the lakeshore trail.
This one took me quite a while to actually finish. I had the drawing all ready, and even the date on it. But I never got around to coloring it; I wanted to use my professional markers for it. (I kind of jokingly call them my “White People” markers–there isn’t Read more…
CPE Week #2! This artwork was generously purchased by my one and only Dad (and on Father’s Day Week, to boot.) It took me a long time to get this up here, because I’ve been pretty busy just trying to get all my things together in my move. It’s almost Read more…
Ie, My bike. My trusty dusty red bike got stolen yesterday. After almost two years of being all over Chicago, she finally caught someone else’s eye. It’s a great bike. It’s an old bike. It’s been hit by a bus. I can ride it miles without touching the handlebars. But Read more…
This week’s artwork was purchased by my friend Kathryn, who is amazing and a member of my cohort here at University of Chicago. She is heading out to Nicaragua this summer to do some great work, and supported me for Week 1, or orientation week. Because I was moving, I Read more…
From Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil “Whiteness as a part of uninterrogated coloredness is a thoroughgoing evasion of color. It assumes that there is no richeness within the worlds of White folks and proclaims a vanilla (as in color, not spice) neutral existence where whiteness, ultimately, is Read more…
In which Maggie shares the knowledge of grocery shopping in Hyde Park: how to do it, how to keep it cheap, and how to enjoy eating even still.
Below is a quote from Simone de Beauvoir on the characteristics of “the girl” or “the adolescent”. Much of this chapter resonated with me. Other parts of it were intriguingly different, or coming from a place which I observed as old. But I think this section may speak to both the experience Read more…
Over the creation of this image, I posted many “half-way-thru” images. But I couldn’t think of a good quote. I couldn’t and couldn’t and couldn’t for the longest time. Then, I found one hiding in the pages of Heidi Neumark’s book “Breathing Space.” Since I loved the book so Read more…
This image was used for the front cover of the Saint Paul and the Redeemer Easter Bulletin. (Sans the text; I added that later.) It is based on the Easter Readings from Year C, the Luke story of the resurrection…
Thomas wants to go back to normal. Like us, he is exhausted by the emotional mess that was his last week: Thomas’ world was one of monotonous powerlessness, poverty and violence, and Jesus’ message of peace and hope thoroughly changed who he was and how he lived in that world.
This is the sermon that I preached on March 3, the Third Sunday of Lent in Year C, on the tree that doesn’t bear fruit and the burning bush.
Art with a touch of Bible–a particularly triumphant portion of Isaiah.
Between us is about the pretty city and the not so pretty city–a theme for just about anyone who lives in Hyde Park and the South Side of Chicago. There’s what we see above, the decoration and the pretty trains, the trees and the parks, and then there’s what’s down below–below Read more…