Ra's Spiral Path

Welcome to Ra’s Spiral Path

The Website of Sarah J Batchelder

Writer < Weaver > Storyteller

Woven Bits
Woven raven over a mountainside
A small portion from “Ancestors Calling” (2025)

Writer, Weaver, and Storyteller

Weaving words and wisdom

Intuitive Tapestry Weaver

I can keep big pictures and stories in mind, while refining details.

Lifelong Learner

As a mother of a tween, educational specialist, and former children’s librarian, I strive to make learning fun.

Copy Editor and Writer

Words matter. And how they are presented matters as well.

Solution Oriented DIY’er

I practice by doing and experimenting and accept failure as a part of the learning process.

Maker of Quirky Items

I find joy in the strange and weird. Do you too? I now have a POD store.

Brewer, Gardener, Hiker

I reclaim ancient knowledge, spaces, and ways to connect with previously hidden ancestral paths.

Writer

I have written in many types of formats – academic, informational, and fictional. I once wrote a rhyming play about the summer reading program where I worked and performed it with a coworker and puppets to an elementary school. The kids loved it.

My portfolio can be found here.

Weaver

I primarily weave tapestries and baskets made from discarded wires and often use repurposed items and upcycled textiles in my work. I am also learning how to use other types of looms – rigid heddle, inkle, and a Swedish counterbalance floor loom.

Moon Views

  • Woven in 2023 in Jamesport, NY
  • My first completed circular weaving
  • Selected for a group exhibition in 2025
A three panel (connected) weaving of a mountain landscape and waterfall by fiber artist, Sarah Batchelder

Ancestors Calling

  • An experimental pulled warp tapestry
  • My weaving almost always include repurposed materials.
  • I honor my planet and her life forms in the materials I choose to work with.
A pulled warp tapestry of a Sonoran mountain kingsnake woven by Sarah Batchelder

Sylvia Snake

  • A pulled warp tapestry woven in three parts – head, middle, and tail.
  • Sylvia is a Sonoran Mountain Kingsnake.
  • Her retractable tongue is made from cable wire.

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  • A different approach

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    http://www.goodreads.com/I’ve been neglecting my blog lately because I’ve just had so many other things going on in my life lately.  I’ve contemplated whether or not I should give up the blog altogether (since I do use Goodreads as well).

  • Touched by an Alien

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    By Gini Koch Place: Publisher & Year: New York: DAW Books, Inc. 2010 Genres: Science fiction, thriller, romance Series: Alien; 1 Format: Paperback (mass market) ISBN: 9780756406004 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 389 Setting: Pueblo Caliente, AZ, Roswell, NM, & New York City Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: As marketing manager, Katherine “Kitty” Katt, is…

  • Promise Me Eternity

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    By Ian Fox Place: Publisher & Year: Amazon Digital Services, 2012 Genres: Suspense, mystery Format: Kindle Book (but I had a print version – no ereader) ASIN: B004KA9JDK Audience: Adult Print length: 370 pages (my manuscript was 137 pages) Setting: Medford, OR Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: Dr. Simon Patterson wishes he could take a break…

  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: a Hmong Child, her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

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    By Anne Fadiman Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997 Genres: nonfiction, social sciences, anthropology, cultural studies, medicine ISBN: 9780374525644 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 341 (including Notes, Bibliography, and Index). Setting: Mostly set in Merced, CA, but also includes places where the Hmong have lived – including China, Laos,…

  • Nemesis

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    By Jo Nesbø; translated by Don Bartlett Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Harper, c2002, 2012 Genres: Mystery, suspense, thriller, crime thriller, police procedural, Scandinavian noir Series: Harry Hole; 5 ISBN: 9780062119698 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 480 (501 including an excerpt from The Devil’s Star) Setting: Oslo, Norway, D’Ajuda & Porto Seguro, Brazil Time…

  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

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    By Susan Cain Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Crown Publishers, 2012 Genres: Nonfiction, psychology, personality ISBN: 9780307352149 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 333 (including Notes and Index). Setting: Various locations in the USA Time period: Contemporary Description:  Cain examines the differences between introverts and extroverts, including various roles played by both in society. …

  • Mastiff

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    By Tamora Pierce Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Random House, 2011 Genres: Fantasy, mystery, paranormal Series: Beka Cooper; 3 ISBN: 9780375814709 Audience: Young adult Number of pages: 593 Setting: Kingdom of Tortall Time period: 249 H.E. (medieval) Plot summary: Beka Cooper and her partner, Mattias Tunstall, are summoned to a hunt by their Lord…

  • Into the Beautiful North

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    By Luis Alberto Urrea Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Back Bay Books, 2009 Genre: General fiction ISBN: 9780316025263 Audience: Adult, young adult Number of pages: 338 Setting: Tres Camarones & Tijuana, Mexico, San Diego, CA, & Kankakee, IL Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: When narcos come to the sleepy town of Tres Camarones, nineteen…

  • Yes Is Better Than No

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    By Byrd Baylor Place: Publisher & Year: Tucson, AZ: Silvercloud Books, c 1972, 2011 Genre: General fiction ISBN: 9780984674404 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 187 Setting: Tucson, AZ Time period: Early 1970’s Plot summary: Maria Vasquez is trying to eke out a life for herself and her children in Tucson.  It is difficult because the…

  • River Marked

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    By Patricia Briggs; narrated by Lorelei King Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Penguin Audio, 2011 Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, paranormal, mystery, paranormal mystery, mythic fiction Series: Mercy Thompson; 6 Format: Audiobook – MP3 ISBN: 9781101436547 Audience: Adult Length: 8 hours, 54 minutes Setting: Columbia River Gorge – OR & WA,  Tri-cities (Richland, Kennewick, &…

A portion of "a map of dragons" by fiber artist, Sarah Batchelder