"How do you get her listen to you?" "I try to say something worth listening to."

I've been detailing my plans for upcoming book and art projects on my Imagination Tribe blog. I know there a few people here who are also IT members, who will see this twice.



I’m writing a book currently called “Mending, Making and Mothering”. It’s about living an artistic lifestyle as a family, with case studies from parents who are doing it. I’m interested in documenting how artists combine a continuing arts and crafts practice with parenting, as well as how they prioritize… Continue

To all our friends,



Hard times have come to the Coburn family. Over the last couple of years the various disasters visited on the film industry and a period of bad luck in the professional arena has led to long periods of unemployment for James. This time last year he was prepping his first movie in about a year. He was very optimistic as he had bookings for three good pictures during 2009, and a promise of a full time job teaching at a film school, for between… Continue

I am delighted to announce that I will be writing a regular column for Natural Life Magazine about green crafting.
My column begins with the Summer/July issue.
http://www.naturallifemagazine.com/

This is another article I originally wrote for Connections. It's not very timely I guess, but it may be useful.

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Now that summer is in full glow it seems likely that many parents are considering swimming lessons for their children. If they are like us with a pool available in their building, they may be reasonably concerned about safety. Perhaps they… Continue

Recently I experienced what felt like a colossal failure. I took a risk, made some poor evaluations, some bad judgments and completely failed in almost all of my objectives for that particular venture.



And as I sat quietly absorbing the realization that my idea had totally tanked I thought about Jayn and how her presence in my life causes me to look at things differently.



Ten or twelve years ago such a failure might have left me… Continue