Category Archives: Mad skillz

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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

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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

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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

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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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