Musings

Reflections on love and loss, but mostly on love (three years later)

People say that 50% of a greeting card line should be birthday cards; I have about three times as many cards for grief and loss as I do for birt...

Why sometimes it's okay to be a pigeon

Hi all,March brings with it the promise of spring, a time of renewal and growth. For those of us who have already, predictably lapsed on our new y...

PS. I like your wobbly bits.

When we like someone - and really want them to like us back - we sometimes try to be who we think they want us to be. Or who we think they think...

birthday card with background full of posters

Reflecting on 2017

Now that it’s the end of the year, many people have been posting their “best nine” - their nine most “liked” Instagram photos from 2017. As I refle...

card with excerpt and animated drawing of unicorn

Sometimes Unicorns Are Just Horses Wearing Strap-Ons

I generally walk around with two questions bouncing around in my head: Why is my shit perpetually such a mess, and how is everyone else keeping the...

Things To Do When You're In A Depressive Spiral Before You Crawl Into Bed (From One Human To Another.)

I don’t know about you all, but I often feel like I’m both okay and not okay, sometimes in a ping-ponging sort of way that’s a little crazy-mak...

thank you card with quote and animated picture

Reflection on 2016: You Are The Sprig Of Green Growing Out Of Shit Mountain

Instead of the regular rotation of holiday markets, I spent these last couple weeks camped out with my sister in a Taiwanese hospital helping my da...

Fuck You, Universe: Cards For Grief & Loss

In extreme freezing conditions, your body restricts blood flow to all extremities, conserving and redirecting its limited energy to preserve only t...

On love and loss, but mostly on love.

In the past couple years, Kwohtations has not only served as a crash course in starting and managing a business, but a lens through which I’ve come...

How To Grow With Integrity?

Dear everyone, I think a lot about what kind of person I want to be when I grow up (although I suspect that I will never feel entirely “grown”), an...

Cards For Love And Other Feelings

Hi everyone, Every year around this time, I can’t help but reflect on all the thoughts and feelings (oh, feelings) that Valentine’s Day stirs up fo...

Doing the Maker Hustle

Dear everyone, A confession: I’ve been a witness to and a participant in the glorification of “busyness” that has become pervasive in certain circl...