Writer / Artist / Designer
My latest design project- postcards for the Postcards to Voters action. I illustrated them with Austin Resistance themes and protest/marches in which I participated. I did them in 20-packs to match a 20-stamp sheet of postcard stamps. There are 20 4X6″
I just completed the Sabor Catering website for the Hecho en Mexico owners, who offer wedding planning & catering, in addition to party catering, corporate catering, etc. Martha wrote content for the site & did some marketing consulting as well. https://www.saborcateringaustin.com/
A Resistance poem – how I survived a personal medical crisis, then joined a movement to save us from a national crisis.
With the growing crisis that has swamped our country, I put aside any creative writing projects, focusing on many levels of resistance to the current corrupt administration. I’ve marched, rallied, volunteered, protested at my MoC’s office, held emergency resistance meetings
I had wanted to get off the mountain quickly, but not that quickly. In fact, the descent was becoming alarmingly rapid. It had started out as an exciting outdoor adventure. I had parked my car on top of Wolf Creek
“Do you ever see anything unusual in your house?” Ah, that question. We had a new neighbor renting the house next to ours and I had stepped over to welcome him to the neighborhood. That was one of the first
As I settled deeper and deeper into the healing relaxation of acupuncture, the air in the tiny therapy room chilled and the walls faded away. I was suddenly outside, standing in front of a house. It was a grand house,
The War of 1812 is not as well known as the American Revolution. England didn’t want to give up its American colonies, so thirty years after she lost them, she tried to retake them. The English attacked from Canada, from
The lane was narrow and dusty. The fence alongside it was eight feet tall and made of corrugated tin roofing, painted long ago but now weathered and rusting. Layers of color showed through one another, cream and aqua green and
She was already quite elderly when I was born, so I only knew my grandmother as the sweet, loving and encouraging Grandma with the houseful of books, magazines and newspapers and my favorite candy always in the candy dish. I