Weaving a poetic [mid] life in my garden & fiber arts studio.

I'm Kiandra, a nerdy/artistic black woman, former SAHM, Homeschooling, gardening wife/mama/artist turned PhD, FT Professor & scholar. While I love academia, I love(d) my slow paced life--gardening, quilting, weaving, knitting & writing poems.

This channel is my accountability journal, my living archive of finding balance between academia, nature & creativity in midlife. I share life vignettes and thoughts from my organic garden, weaving & spinning studio, and the side of my knitting needles & sewing machine. I believe we don't have to leave everything and move to the country to find peace, embrace joy, and cultivate a life worth living. I believe in cultivating & preserving Womanist practices rooted in Audre Lorde's "The Uses of the Erotic."

Follow for organic vegetable & flower gardening (Zone 9B), knitting, hand weaving, spinning fiber, quilting, & sewing from the other side of academia.

I hope we can be friends :)