Archive • Monday Monday

Jamila Reddy is a writer, meditation guide, ex-entrepreneur, and dear friend.In this episode, we talk about:What it means to be a writerThe capacity it takes...

The Magic of Quilt Camp

October 6, 2025

All photos by Ellen RuttDear Reader,Last month I hosted a weekend beyond my wildest dreams, Quilt Camp. With the support of Green Door Folk School and Cedar...

Into the Broadcast: Taking Ideas from Fragment to Finished

October 1, 2025

Today’s episode is about the long journey of cultivating consistency in our creative practices.I talk about: the magic of giving up, how to find the right...

On a Path to Liberation

September 29, 2025

Dear Reader,There are many points throughout my life that have radicalized me. Sometimes these come through direct experience — the weight of the world...

The Cartography of a Season

September 25, 2025

Dear Readers and Listeners,THINGS OF NOTE :A new episode of Common Shapes just went live—ready for you in whatever podcast container you like to listen in.🎧...

The Cartography of a Season: Mapping Your Podcast & Business Cadence

September 24, 2025

Let me take you behind the scenes of mapping fall in my business.You’ll learn the three essential parts of a practice-based earning ecosystem. Plus, I share...

The Quiet Grief of Being Trans

September 22, 2025

Dear Reader,Last week was a hard week to be trans. It was a hard week to have scars, to have a new name, to have your birth marker not match your license, to...

Creative Ideation Portal Day 3: Art as Service

September 19, 2025

Today we complete our mini series going over the free Creative Ideation Portal - a guide to help you vision your projects and share them with the world.Tune...

Creative Ideation Portal Day 2: Moving the Needle Forward

September 18, 2025

Today we continue our mini series going over the free Creative Ideation Portal - a guide to help you vision your projects and share them with the world.Tune...

My Podcast Returns

September 17, 2025

Dear readers and listeners,Today we celebrate the triumphant return of Common Shapes - my podcast about practices and systems for creative work.Art by Jess...

Creative Ideation Portal Day 1: Our Many Visions

September 17, 2025

Welcome to a new season of Common Shapes!We’re beginning with a mini series going over the free Creative Ideation Portal - a guide to help you vision your...

Building an Online World

September 15, 2025

Dear Reader,My new websiteI am beyond thrilled this morning to share with you my brand new website, a home on the web for all my projects, built with systems...

Fall Class Schedule

September 10, 2025

Photo by Cody SellsDear students of mine past, present, and future I wanted to present to you my Fall Schedule of Classes so you could get them on your...

Looking for the Anchors

September 8, 2025

Dear Reader,I am always in search of the anchors to my practice. What do I throw in to the water so that I don’t slip away? What do I let sink to the bottom...

Your Phone or Your Life?

September 1, 2025

Dear Reader,Today there is no regularly scheduled newsletter but I wanted to share a few short announcements.The amazing Holly Whitaker interviewed me on her...

Pilates Is Not My Job

August 25, 2025

Dear Reader,I have come to an important and profound decision. At this time I will not be folding Pilates into my job. I will not attempt to monetize...

Welcome to Cody's World

August 18, 2025

Dear Reader,Today I am completely reshaping my newsletter as a digital garden, a place that is new and improved.→ Free subscribers : Everything is the same,...

Welp, New Mexico Levied My Wages

August 14, 2025

Dear Reader,Last week I made a really big financial decision for my business. One of the biggest investments I have put into myself or the work I have done...

Me and My Little YouTube Channel

August 11, 2025

Dear Reader,It began as most ideas do, with a fleeting thought that would carry on for years and eventually cause me to hyper fixate for weeks on making it...

Will I Be The Only Fat Queer At Pilates?

August 7, 2025

Welcome to the Yes Yes Advice Column for paid subscribers of the Monday Monday newsletter. I write to you from the darkness of the early morning hours where...

No Users Found

August 4, 2025

Dear Reader,After thirteen years of using the app, and seven years of experimenting with deactivating, I finally deleted Instagram forever.No Users FoundNo...

That feeling of being washed up

July 28, 2025

Dear Reader,A friend recently had a dance workshop which used to sell out effortlessly only have four spots sell, two of them sliding scale. She described...

Marketing without Instagram: does it even work?

July 24, 2025

Dear Reader,Last weekend I taught one of my favorite workshops ever about self publishing. I quickly realized it should have been an entire semester long...

When love goes unseen

July 21, 2025

Dear Reader,There are kinds of love that don’t announce themselves. That weave through the shadows with grace and precision, leaving me feeling cherished...

Self Publishing as Documentation Practice

July 14, 2025

Public Access PilatesDear Reader,I find that every noticing can become a project, and every project begins as a noticing practice. A noticing pattern. A...

A Sweet Opening

July 12, 2025

Dear reader,Today is the opening of my first solo art show, The Quilt As Archive. The good news is before the show even opens I sold my first quilt. I am...

Notes on Practice and Pricing

July 7, 2025

Archive SevenDear Reader,I have never had an online quilt shop because I thought if I had an online quilt shop I would hate making quilts. I have a BFA in...

FREE : Pilates Warm Up Video

July 5, 2025

Dear ReaderToday I gift you a 14 minute video of me guiding you through a warm up of basic Pilates moves.It is me practicing teaching. It is you showing up...

Public Access Pilates

July 3, 2025

Dear reader,I write to you from a business ecosystem vortex where everything feels out of place but right on time. I have begun documenting my at home...

A New Effort

June 30, 2025

Dear Reader,I have so much to share with you these days. So many things in my professional and creative ecosystem I want you to know about. It is also day by...

Choosing Our Inner World

June 28, 2025

🪟 Registration is open for QUILT CAMP September 5-8 in Cedar, MI. Sunset swims, radical quilt lectures, and improvisational patchwork. Housing right next...

A Known Homosexual

June 23, 2025

A day at homeDear Reader,It is a gift to beam into your inbox today. Every Monday I am charmed but today feels especially ripe as I write about one of my...

In My Solstice Cocoon

June 16, 2025

Dear Reader,After weeks of reporting, marketing, and email sending — I feel quiet. I want to retreat into my cocoon. There’s something about this moment in...

An Awareness of Tactics

June 14, 2025

Dear reader,Good morning from a calm day in Northern Michigan, where June is sleeping softly next to me and the sun is hiding behind the clouds. Today’s...

Why I’m Rescheduling Class This Weekend

June 11, 2025

Dear reader,This weekend, I was planning to teach Systems for Artists, a two-part class about structuring time with care, clarity, and alignment.But when I...

Each Wave a Potential Witness

June 9, 2025

Dear Reader,As I went to bed last night I said a single prayer for all aboard the Madleen as part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition abducted by Israeli...