Laura Schaefer reads from her new book - Free

Art in the cafe...

Members of Red Pine


"Permutations of Red Pine"


September 2026



A Red Pine tree was planted at the corner of 212 Merry Street in the late 60s that evolved over the decades into a cooperative household. We are making it a place for comity and creativity; Clarity and the imagination; we change detritus of early 21st century late stage capitalism into art, shrine, paintings, music, sculptures, urban Permaculture and homesteading experiments. We appreciate the used, the worn out, ever crumbling and reassembling; as we all are all the time.
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Laura loves to write almost as much as she likes to drink tea. She got her start as a contributor to the University of Wisconsin-s student paper The Daily Cardinal and went on to write regularly for The Princeton Review and Match.com. Laura is the author of Man with Farm Seeks Woman with Tractor (Thunder-s Mouth Press, 2005). She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her enormous cat Ramona and she can usually be found dancing the lindy hop or volunteering as an art museum docent. Her favorite type of tea is English Breakfast with lots of milk and sugar.

Come to Mother Fool's on April 19th at noon to meet Laura. She will be reading from The Teashop Girls, answering questions, and signing books. Laura will also bring her sticker maker for girls who want to make their own original teacup decorations.

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