You know you’re getting close to Haystack when everyone’s front yard begins to fill with lobster traps, and the pine trees grow so tall that they seem about to swallow the thin strip of country road at any moment. If you roll down your window, the ancient, spicy smell of the sea fills your nose and makes your hair stand on end. This first week of October, I went to Haystack Mountain School of Crafts for five days as part of a longstanding tradition at Mass Art.

In 2022, I partnered with the Donkey Mill Art Center and the Bridge House, a sober living community in Holualoa, Hawai'i to create the Clay for Recovery pilot program. Read the full story and see the student’s amazing work!

Southpaw is slang for left handed. If you aren’t into boxing, you may have never heard the term before. I hadn’t. Until one day, when I was writing in my journal at a cafe and a two nosy guys wondered by. They stopped, looked at me writing, and one said to the other, “look at the southpaw on that one!”