Tricia Creason-Valencia 9/25/24 Tricia Creason-Valencia 9/25/24

Make Stuff, Build Community & Smash the Patriarchy

With a spin on Woodsy Owl's advice to "Pack it In, Pack it Out", we decided to leave our signs behind, leaving the park a little more radicalized than we found it.

Tricia Creason-Valencia 7/30/24 Tricia Creason-Valencia 7/30/24

Mantras Swirling in My Mind

What are the words and phrases I repeat, either out loud, in my mind or in a whisper, under my breath? Too often, “Are you f*cking kidding me?” is my go-to under-my-breath phrase.

But a mantra should: motivate, ground, inspire, remind, encourage. Shouldn’t it?

Tricia Creason-Valencia 7/29/24 Tricia Creason-Valencia 7/29/24

Teens Have Stories to Tell: Are Adults Willing to Listen?

I hold my breath as she recites her poem. I remember to breathe. Abandonment. Loss. Grief. Almost all of our students touch on similar themes.

Tricia Creason-Valencia 7/1/24 Tricia Creason-Valencia 7/1/24

Mothering & the Sandwich Generation

I’ve been grieving the gradual loss of my mother at a time when I’ve needed mothering the most.

Tricia Creason-Valencia 6/1/24 Tricia Creason-Valencia 6/1/24

I Gotta #KeepLiving

I thought that if I loved my people hard enough and never gave up, things would generally work out. Then the pandemic hit.

Tricia Creason-Valencia 5/1/24 Tricia Creason-Valencia 5/1/24

Being a Girl Jock Saved My Soul

I’ve played a range of team sports my whole life - softball, basketball, roller derby - because that combination of feminism, friendship, physicality and team work is the perfect blend that inspires me to show up as my authentic and enthusiastic self.

Tricia Creason-Valencia 4/23/24 Tricia Creason-Valencia 4/23/24

The “Hot Mess Guarantee”

I’ve found it is easier to be an excellent friend during good times, when family members are well, when there are no complicated family or work crises unfolding. However, as I’m entering my “crone” stage of life, I've come to realize that there is always a crisis of some kind brewing for most of us.

Tricia Creason-Valencia 3/23/24 Tricia Creason-Valencia 3/23/24

I am burnt and remade: Women’s Wellness Retreat Poetry

I am grief, rivers of pain, joy reclaimed

I am lost in the waters that heal me or drown me, gasping, fighting, succumbing

Tricia Creason-Valencia 3/1/24 Tricia Creason-Valencia 3/1/24

Crafty Chicas: Creating Women’s Space in Today’s World

There is often a pure connection, a sense of play and nurture, a yearning to learn together, to be better together when women gather in these ways. Is this a modern day version of witches’ covens or feminist communes? Sign me up, baby!