a colorful adventure

I love it when a short conversation inspires a blog post! I want to give a few thoughts to the ideas that my good friend Marie Bowers inspired recently with this tweet: @JPlovesCOTTON Hey what is the demand for cotton?— Marie Bowers (@MarieB41) January 31, 2012 My first reaction probably wasn’t what she was looking [...]

I never expected to see a cotton plant in the wild on Hawaii’s Big Island. And my friend Marsha actually saw it first. We thought it was a mirage for a while but we really did see a cotton plant on Hawaii’s Big Island! I was so excited that I couldn’t take photos quick enough! [...]

This is the first time in decades that I haven’t started my professional year with a trip to the Beltwide Cotton Conferences, yes I am so old as to have decades old routines. Go ahead mock me. I can take it. For as long as I can remember, I was heading to the cotton industry’s [...]

Well, the headline may mislead you but I’m okay with that.   The Christmas shopping help didn’t come in the form of carrying bags, picking out items, etc but as I started wrapping the gifts that were going to go under trees, I realized several of them started with a seed planted on a farm. [...]

Tonight I was asked to answer a question about cotton on Quora and I decided to go ahead and post my reply here on the blog too since I had already taken the time to write it all up.  :) The question was “How is cotton picked nowadays?“ The answer I gave them follows with a few [...]

When you wear your passion on your sleeve (or in your Twitter handle like @JPlovesCOTTON) it is really easy for other people to share that passion. This was part of the presentation I gave during the 140 character small town conference (140conf) that I’ve talked so much about. But I really hadn’t talked about what I was [...]

We’ve all heard it…. if you are going to run or do exercise, you want some type of fabric that wicks away the moisture. Somewhere along the line, that seemed to limit the use of natural fibers like my beloved cotton. But there are a couple of products in the market that have more people [...]