Little whisp of summer wafting in here...

Remembering Pepperwood and last summer, when I tromped all around the mountaintops toting my paintbox and related paraphenalia, happy times....

Lesson learned. Check.

This is about as severely overworked as then get. My spontaneity has all dried up, and I got all invested in the work. Okay, now ready to ...

If only it were this easy...

This is my reference/self-help/spiritual bookshelf. I have spent most of my life trying to figure out what is going on around me. Take my ...

Nuts about pears. Oh, hell, just nuts.

Crazy time here in the little yellow house. My 66th year, and well aware that my grandfather died suddenly at this age. Of a stroke. So, ...

It's not easy being me, redux.

I got bored this morning. Not a good thing for anyone in the vicinity, and thankfully, that was just the dogs, who cut me a wide berth as l...

A different art altogether...

My mother sews. Until recently, like since she turned 90, she sewed or knitted most of her own clothes, made pillows and curtains and afgha...

And that's all she wrote, folks.

Done with this little ditty, which threatened to never manifest itself at all, and then came together in a way that was kind of interesting....

Humility on a whole different level...

When i have been down, as I have been lately, I like to CHANGE something, and that thing I usually change is my hair. And usually, the chan...

It's in the details, Victoria.

My artist-du-jour specializes in portraits, with especial attention to (are you ready for this) hair. Okay, she has a BFA from a prestigiou...

Back to basics, never a bad idea...

I just did my zen dishwasher emptying. I get all in the moment, and mindfully put away all those sparkly clean dishes, and wow, what an abu...

It is what it is...

My artist-du-jour on my home iGoogle page works in neon lights, clever sayings like "trying to live on 14 cents a day". What is t...

Dagny Taggert rules!

I read Atlas Shrugged back in 1964. I was in the process of divorcing my first husband, just 20 years old, and probably not in full possess...

Funky Friday...

Well, I am up. I have perused my summons to jury duty, which tells me the date I am obligated to report, the place, gives me a parking perm...

The new regime...

I moved the big jellydoughnut dog cushion under my computer desk today because I am about to put up a big folding table in the nook in the k...

Wonders never cease!

My keys found their way back to me! Here's the story; I went to my noon women's meeting, and we read the 5th step today, about adm...

Dancing in the darkness...

Well, it's Monday. The garbage guys have been by, several times. The whole house shudders with the noisiness of it all. Sirens. Lots...

Sunday, again.

There was a moment this morning, late this morning, when I considered not getting up at all. Never mind that it is all sunny and bright out...

It's "just shoot me" Friday, again.

I seem to have lost my spare set of keys. And how is that a problem, you may well ask. For a normal person, it wouldn't be. For this ...

This may be the end result. Maybe.

Must hide this under something. Otherwise, every time I walk by, there will be more to do on it. It is fun and bright and okay exactly as ...

The state of the art...

Here is current oeuvre, still loosey-goosey and all over the place, could be done, maybe not. This one taught me a lot about layering the c...

Always beginning. Always.

I started a new pastel, after a lovely mile and a half walk to the art supply store, where they were having a dandy sale on pastels, normall...

Abundance and other considerations...

I just paid my taxes. Yes, I owe. I never have enough deducted. Why give them more than they deserve, let them keep it a whole year, then...