Today is the day, hooray hooray! I am so excited to join the myriad of amazing binders, printers, artists, and visionaries at codex. Its raining outside, which is always so dreamy, and even though I don't feel totally prepared, I am prepared for Magic! Check out www.codexfoundation.org

After my husband died, I wrote a book about loss for our daughter, who was then 3 years old. I had decided to make the whole book with my own hands as an exercise of devotion, and went looking for a letterpress class. The day I walked into Iota Press, I wept. I don't know what it was, but something about the old presses and the inks and papers made me feel home. Iota is a co-op run by Eric Johnson, a truly kind, deeply intelligent man with an inspired wit, and a passion for t