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• Because, crochet | heathercapelli

  In January, I decided to take crochet seriously. At the beginning of the pandemic, I figured out how to read a pattern. I figured out how to follow directions. I spent several months with a tiny littl...

• The pros and cons of being human | heathercapelli

  “The ability to read a room,” says J, “it’s basically empathy. There’s an understanding of what’s going on. And if you can get there, you can get just outside of it.” She thinks it’s my empathy, that ...

• Making things that are real | heathercapelli

  I want to tell you a story. I’m not sure how to begin it. And even if I do begin it, I’m not sure how the rest of it goes. How the rest of it CAN go, twisting and turning itself depending on what angl...

• Time it was and what a time it was | heathercapelli

  When we were seventeen and eighteen I had a dream about this photo. I remember being that girl, but it’s like being inside her head and hearing a story about being inside her head. I remember those su...

• Pieces scattered everywhere | heathercapelli

  I have been sorting my house. A natural born clutterer, it’s like excavating layers of my life. Each layer delicately laid down with every intention to return, and then forgotten. I’ve unearthed my re...

• Where the Wild Things Are | heathercapelli

  When the child was a child, we read books. I’ve told this story before. I read to her, books I had loved when I was the child. I read to her, books my mother had loved, my mother’s mother had loved, w...