"Crowded for Illustration Friday"

Night before last my furnace stopped working. The repair person couldn’t come out until today so I was without heat over 24 hours. It is in the low thirties here in Seattle and I live in an old house with single paned windows so it’s been cold and drafty, to say the least. As I…

For the Everyday Matters Group “Kitchen Challenge”. I struggled not to judge every imperfection and succeeded by just getting lost in the designs of the tin. I found it very meditative to draw the design and go over it with my favorite graphite pencil. I’m delighted with the result because I stuck to it and…

Tonight, I went to a screening of Quick Brown Fox at the Henry Art Museum.  It is a very touching film done by a brave woman, Ann Hedreen of White Noise Productions.  It is an account, in the first person, of a woman whose mother is dying of Alzheimer’s Disease.  During the Q&A, I asked…

Random bits from my magnetic poetry board.  I have “goddess” and “personal ad” words currently up. “Kinky Creative Bisexual Voluptuous Muscular Female Seeks Spiritual Erotic Yoga Sex With Beautiful Sensual Male” “Sacrifice Work And Just Love” “Bow Down To Sex Goddess” “Earth Chick Is Very Nice To Chocolate Body” “Revere Mother Earth” “Make Eternal Love” “I Celebrate…

Sipping some delightful French pressed coffee, listening to my new Christina Aguilera CD (thanks Mom!), watching my girls play and just relaxing on this beautiful, winter day. The holidays this year have been a time of more simplicity which has allowed time for what is most important to me. I have made fewer commitments, done…