My garden is poetry… For Throwback Thursday, I am publishing this post from June 2016. “A garden should make you feel you’ve entered privileged space — a place not just set apart but reverberant — and it seems to me … Read More
How to be disciplined as an artist. There is a generalization out there about artists that goes something like this: artists are very right-brained, disorganized, and flighty. In the last years, I have learned that nothing could be further from … Read More
The perils of being an art supply junkie. Has this happened to you? You open your kitchen cupboard searching for a specific item and discover that several of the canned or dry goods that you purchased some time ago … Read More
This post was previously published in August 2015 when I first started blogging. With a bitterly cold Arctic wind and a temperature of -20C, spring flowers are still the stuff of memory. Today, I am dreaming of the time I spent … Read More
Cuba’s cars are still classy. Final post in a three-part series. This post was previously published in 2016. I had fun researching popular songs from the fifties that tell of a North American obsession with cars. Other posts about Havana … Read More
“You start as a phony and become real.” – Glenn O’Brien, American writer and critic also known as the “Style Guy”. (glennobrien.com) This post was first published in 2016, a few months after I had been blogging. Since then, … Read More
This year… I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing … Read More
“Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? In the lane, snow is glistening…” ~ A Winter Wonderland. (This post was previously published in 2016.) (“An After-Christmas visit”. Acrylic on canvas. ) I painted this very old-fashioned, traditional Christmas scene many years … Read More
“It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.” ~ Marjorie … Read More
Welcome everyone! It’s time to bring out the balloons and uncork the bottle of bubbly and introduce my new website!!! A big hearty welcome to all my former blog subscribers, friends, followers, and visitors. I am ecstatic (can’t you tell?) … Read More
Celebrate 150 Years of History On a beautiful sunny day recently, I visited MOSAICANADA150, a combination of different art forms that took my breath away. Set in Jacques Cartier Park in Gatineau, Québec, this horticultural display is meant to take … Read More
When my son and daughter-in-law announced that they had found a home in the country, I began to think of a unique housewarming gift that I might offer them. Coincidentally, my youngest son is heavily into recycling and had lots … Read More