August 2007
Last month I was in Chicago at the same time Blogher was; I didn't go to any of the panels but I did go to one after party where I "randomly" bumped into none other than Kathy Cano Murillo or Crafty Chica as she's better known by.
There were two reasons meeting her took me off gaurd. The first is that she was one of the original people to say yes to being on this site (and that was back in 2002) and it was so amazing to finally meet her and thank her in person for believing in this site enough to say yes. And then to see how far she's come since then and to know that the advice she's shared here isn't just words but advice built on a creative life that is actively working, changing and flourishing.
The second reason I was caught off guard was because when we were talking, she asked about the site and I realised that I hadn't been posting here. There have been no newsletters, no real additions, no improvements to the site in a very, very long time.
This site has always been a labour of love and I"ve always been committed to the idea of sharing all this information for free (free to read, free to be an artist). Because it's a labour of love, things get worked on as time allows and in the last few years, time hasn't allowed me much. Just like Kathy, my work has changed and grown. Unlike Kathy, I haven't been keeping up with a site that helped jump start it all.
But people keep coming, emailling me, and connecting in our list serv. That's not something I want to forget. So I'm trying to carve some time to make a lot of site improvements and also to get back to writing the newsletters. If you have any time to help (ideas, you can code - anything!) please let me know. The one thing this site has taught me is that we're not alone - we're a community.
And I want to do more for it.