ABOUT

I make pots, teach writing, and raise a family in the southern White Mountains of New Hampshire. I began throwing pots 30 years ago when an introductory wheel throwing class in college grabbed me by my English-major collar and held on. I am grounded by taking part in the age-old practice of making things people use to do central, everyday tasks and exhilarated by making things with intention and integrity.

Marge Piercy’s “To Be of Use” sums it up.

“The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.”