I've always enjoyed making things but I fell away from it in my 20s, although I flexed creative muscles when it came to writing and photography. It was only in my mid-30s—paradoxically a time of both stagnancy and seismic changes—that I reclaimed the makery part of myself and wove it into my life as a kind of therapy. In my 40s a friend and I started selling our art at a few dark/indie craft shows each year.