Christine MasonAnimalThe boys always knew they were animals They would hock loogies and have contests to see who could hold the longest belch They would fart…May 18, 20161May 18, 20161
Christine MasonLust for MakingLast night, Shiva and I had a date (yes, with each other, and ALSO with some thick cotton paper and long handled brushes). He put on some…Apr 25, 20161Apr 25, 20161
Christine MasonLetting go of #CaliforniaNormalI woke up this morning without an alarm clock sounding chimes or positive mantras. Just rode in the day with the sunrise. I then did NOT…Apr 4, 2016Apr 4, 2016
Christine MasonIdealism Shaming. Don’t Be Cool.What I call “Idealism Shaming” is a thing. It’s a phenomenon in which those who think of themselves as realists (or rational, or practical…Mar 29, 2016Mar 29, 2016
Christine MasonThe Impossible Union of Artists.And in the end, there was nothing to be fixed. She saw him through his periods of ungroomed Ted Kaczynski silent isolations, and was there…Mar 25, 2016Mar 25, 2016
Christine MasonThe MakerIt’s Thursday night and there’s a deluge, rain and wind pummeling the house, bending trees. We’re laying on the sheepskin rug bundled in…Mar 11, 2016Mar 11, 2016
Christine MasonThere’s all manner of material science that measures tensile strength or hardness; in Pascals or…but how silk charmeuse sweeps and falls over a hip turning, or how barely blowing air pipettes through a cool night’s window onto the…Mar 9, 2016Mar 9, 2016
Christine MasonBYO State Change ToolkitIf you, like me, have a few spots where you tend to be at the mercy of your moods, external stimuli or internal chemistry, having tricks…Mar 9, 2016Mar 9, 2016
Christine MasonThe Illusion of Safe: Connecting What You Do to Who You AreWhen I went to college, I thought I’d be a dancer, an artist, a writer (ironically exactly what I ended up doing, if through a circuitous…Mar 6, 20162Mar 6, 20162