Oct 20, 2019 | ideas & inspiration
IT IS NO coincidence, of this I am certain, that as I took five minutes this morning to flip through my recently ignored inbox, Maria Popova had sent me this via her always illuminating Sunday Brain Pickings newsletter: What, then, of autumn — that liminal space...
Feb 13, 2019 | ideas & inspiration
AND HERE WE ARE in February, halfway through, heading full speed into March, and spring, and the mayhem that will arrive as May. It will hit with the force of a thousand obligations: end-of-school examinations and sports banquets and graduation parties and business...
Nov 15, 2018 | ideas & inspiration
I’ve missed our time together over the past several months! I’ve had a bit going on (of course, who doesn’t?) plus there have been some technical issues with the blog that have taken a while to work out. I am hopeful things are fixed now and we can...
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...
Nov 23, 2017 | ideas & inspiration
I wrote this post in 2011 and repost it every year in tribute to my mom, who passed away in February of 2013. (It has become my Thanksgiving tradition, I guess you would have to say.) Wishing you every joy of this blessed holiday. ~~~ The past three nights I have had...
