Author: Joy

  • Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise.

    Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise.

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    I apologize in advance to any of my readers who still use RSS updates to read; I’m sure you have gotten some really strange outputs from me lately. It was due to furniture moving around as we updated my site. It was a goal I set for myself in July,…

  • A Hospitable Theory of Social Media Engagement

    A Hospitable Theory of Social Media Engagement

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    Any parent of teenagers can tell you that the deepest, most expansive, and heart changing conversations  you can have with your kid (in this case, about social media) will probably happen in the sleepy hours between 10 and midnight. It is a whole different type of newborn wakefulness. They have…

  • Brain food #1

    Brain food #1

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    My relationship with the internet has gotten very weird, as I’ve alluded. My husband and I got into an interesting dive of a conversation recently as we were talking about some of the goals I have set for myself for the summer, which included some background website work. “No one…

  • Mapping it out

    Mapping it out

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    I had this whole thing set up that I wanted to do in March. I had a collection almost ready to go; I had a whole posting schedule for social media. Stuff was written and planned in advance, I was painting, it was glorious. And then BAM. Life. We got…

  • Robots and changing voice.

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    I firmly blame the new AI policies for finally driving me back to my own ‘spot’ on the internet, where I own and can protect my own copyright to my images and artwork and can prevent as much AI scraping as possible. It’s sort of funny how everything has come…