feet slide to the floor while it rises to meet the day reptilian brain stalking prehistoric prey while you lay sleeping, dreaming and slinking something came creeping, invading your thinking reminiscent, reticent, then quiet… then… nothing powdery box of noxious offerings mixed with your morning coffee a dour thread unwinds the…
September 20 I can’t get rid of my big goofy smile this morning. Opening my camera bag for the first time I see that Chris has hidden a card inside. With humorous references to Star Wars (of course) he tells me he loves me and to enjoy my vacation. So far, so good… this is…
September 19 This being my fourth trip to New Mexico in 10 years, maybe I shouldn’t be so excited but I am. This time I’m going to Roswell! After landing today in El Paso, TX, this will be a two-week road trip through New Mexico and Arizona – the longest vacation I’ve had in –…
A year ago today, my parents’ number appeared on my phone. Gut instinct suggested it was bad news. It was. When I arrived at their house 30 minutes later – the home where I grew up – three empty police cars ominously waited in the twilight hours on the normally quiet suburban cul-de-sac. The words…
What defines a “master artist”? What defines a “master” anything? If I can copy a master artist’s painting does that make me a master? If I can produce master-like work on my own but I only churn out five works over my lifetime does that make me a master? Did the old masters know…
After making my way into Washington, DC with a classmate and finally finding a place to park (no small task on a Friday morning), we headed to the National Gallery of Art to see the “Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In” exhibit, which focuses on his watercolor paintings of windows. During his lifetime, the artist produced…
During the past few months I created this blog, bought a MacBook Pro laptop, a wireless printer and a new iPhone. For my birthday a couple weeks ago my generous and thoughtful boyfriend gave me a new semi-professional DSLR camera, and with a gift certificate from my brother and sister-in-law I bought a new lens. …
“You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.” ~Alejandro Jodorowsky Flowing with momentum into weeks 8 and 9 of my watercolor class (nature studies), which started as a brief experiment in vulnerability but has now transformed into a…
The Naked Notebook 