Make Something: Big Newspaper
“Work with a newspaper to make the biggest thing you can.” My intention was to buy a copy of today’s Chicago Tribune, then spend the evening slicing it into strips […]
Make Something: Hometown Limerick
my hometown had very few people its highest of rises were steeples there was one traffic stop and a great donut shop with fritters that should be illegal
Make Something: Before Lunch
Hey father, provider, so good and so great! Thanks for the marvelous food on my plate … soft mellow cheese and juicy red meat, crisp salty chips and a salsa with heat, […]
Make Something: Paper Bag
What if you had to live for a week from a sack? The brown paper kind school kids use for a snack? What precious things would you choose to stow? […]
Make Something: Quiet
I’m at Chicago’s Auditorium Theater, about to see David Sedaris. Hear David Sedaris. Enjoy David Sedaris. I feel, about this, like a teenage girl might feel about seeing a heart […]
Make Something: Yellow
Jim and I are away for a weekend of relaxation, but I am determined to keep up with daily “making.” Today’s prompt suggested I work only with yellow, which is […]
Make Something: Skyline
Growing up on a farm, I did not identify with any particular skyline. My skyline was … well, a sky. The bottom border of that sky was subtle. The soft […]
Make Something: Hat
Look at me: I’m the cat in the hat that is The Cat in the Hat! Eight-year-old Emma gets the image credit. She posed me on a stair, then stood […]
Make Something: Hand
Today’s make something assignment was to work with my hands—literally. In the second or third grade, at the back of a book about Hellen Keller, I discovered tiny drawings of […]
Make Something: Skeleton
cardboard skeleton brass brad joints set at neat points fixed still with brown tape
Make Something: Unseasonal
The make something assignment today is to create something that belongs to another season of the year and put it into the environment. All day I’ve battled a migraine. We […]
Make Something: Seeds
Today’s prompt is to “use seeds to make something.” We have a bag of dried soybeans in our snack bin. Every time I see them I smile and wonder what my […]
Make Something: Birds
mother robin builds twenty homes in her time I have one to tidy and keep out all the grime toothpaste in the sink shoes by the door dishes on the […]
Make Something: Robot
Today’s creation has nothing to do with words, so I’m straying from my make something theme. Sometimes you just have to step away from the plan. My daughter Emma jumped […]
Make Something: Indoors Seem Outdoors
frost on the mirror snow on the sill a window scarcely open admits abundant chill
Beth Nyland 