Welcome to Sharon’s Compendium, where you’ll find goods and discourse of a useful, informative, and sometimes amusing nature.

Click on “Shop” above to browse and perhaps buy goods such as zines and chapbooks, note cards and greeting cards, the Useful Calendar, and occasional other things. My Etsy shop, also called Sharon’s Compendium, is in permanent “vacation” mode. I plan to close it after the start of the new year (2026).

“Observations” include musings, intel, news, and whatever I’m learning about or working on at any given time. So, really a blog, but with a different name. The first post is about why I launched this website.

 “Also This” is the catch-all for everything else you might want to know about Sharon’s Compendium, like contact info, a little about me and what drives all this, where to find my goods besides here, and any other random info I haven’t thought of yet.

Sign up for my somewhat monthly email newsletter below (or on the checkout page, if you’re going there anyway). Use the contact page for questions and feedback, or send email to sharon -at- sharonscompendium.com. Thanks for visiting.

—Sharon Parker, Minneapolis, Minnesota