Sep 22, 2020 | making & doing
IN EARLIER DAYS of COVID, I wrote about returning to your instincts as a way to cope with the stress of such an unprecedented time. I wasn’t thinking of it in exactly that way when first it happened to me. I just did what came naturally when reduced to a more...
May 13, 2020 | Creative Living, making & doing
WHAT A STRANGE and unsettling time we’re in, suffering the coronavirus pandemic. Two months of self-isolation and at least we can say we have managed to master the mechanics the situation: living separate, working from home, properly logging in to Zoom....
May 31, 2018 | making & doing
I WANT TO BE All In. To jump at the chance. To go full-tilt, full-bore, full-on. I want to grab life hard, and fast, and as my inspiring friend Tim Floyd reminds me–yell YIPPIE taking the sharp curves. But I am not that person. Instead I move slow,...
Jan 19, 2018 | making & doing
Case in point, how I paint. It’s something I love and don’t take too seriously (let’s call that a WIN) because I paint primarily to stretch my brain. And because this is primarily my life philosophy: So I signed up for Mary Gilkerson’s...
Jun 30, 2017 | making & doing
Friends are coming for the long holiday weekend and so we ran down the mountain to get the necessary supplies. On my list before groceries was a stop for new yarn and needles. I need to teach these girls to knit, you see. Not because they asked, exactly. But because,...
Jan 31, 2014 | making & doing
a little roundup of things that inspired me this week 1. theSkimm, Superbowl edition I thank my sister-in-law, Colette, for alerting me to this fast, fabulous daily e-news service called theSkimm. Today’s version is a quick download of all the most interesting...
