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Category Archives: Mad skillz
Carpentry for Women part III: Power Tools
Part III of my Yestermorrow experience. I do go on, don’t I? Carry on: I’ll be done with this soon enough. We look at tools. There are so many. Take the hammer, for example. There are hammers with wooden handles, … Continue reading
Carpentry for Women part II: who we are
This is part two of the rather absurdly lengthy six-part series about my carpentry for women class at the Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Warren, Vermont. If you missed part I: Arriving, you’ll find it here. There are nine of us … Continue reading
Carpentry for Women, part I: arriving
Recently, I did a week-long Carpentry for Women class at the Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Warren, Vermont. I sat down to try to write about it, to capture some of how it felt to be there, and what came out … Continue reading
The house that Ali built
More thoughts on caprentry…and on Vermont…and on my sunburned shoulders…and on my blisters…and on power tools…and on the kind of woman that chooses to spend a week’s vacation in the woods, swinging a hammer and cursing like a sailor. More … Continue reading
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Greetings from the other Vermont
Anyone out there remember a million years ago, when out of the blue, I signed up for a week-long women’s carpentry class? And then months came and went and you never heard a word, not one single word, about the … Continue reading
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