The Learning Curve
Hi Friends, After I sent out my artistic year-end review last week, several people wrote and said “all of your art is so wonderful.” I appreciate th...
Category: Musings
We’ve Come So Far
Hi Friends! I’ve never done an end-of-the-year review before, but artist Pam Lowe recently sent me a message about her history as a quilter and her new pa...
Welcome Home!
Greetings Friends! I’ve always been intrigued by the tagline for the annual Burning Man event in the Nevada desert, “Welcome Home.” It feels i...
Impermanence and Change
Hi Friends, The holidays are upon us, and I don’t even know what I’m doing for Thanksgiving yet! With my father’s recent passing, my mother...
Finding Our Way Through
Hello Friends, It’s been another challenging week, with the mass shooting down the road in Thousand Oaks, and the Hill and Woolsey fires, just ten miles a...
Working with Adversity
Hi Friends, I was working in the studio last week under suboptimal conditions. The weather was hot and it was super low humidity, which can affect my paintings ...
Facing Fear
Greetings Friends, I succumbed to fear for a moment this week. The synagogue shootings, pipe bombs in the mail, three amber alerts on my cell phone in two days,...
The Rise of the Sacred Feminine
Hello Friends, For the last several thousand years, our world has been dominated by patriarchy, which elevates God the Father over Mother Earth, and man over wo...
Backwards Thinking
Greetings Friends, One of the first things taught in marketing is to look for a problem or a need, and then create a product or service that fulfills that need....
Transitions
Hello Friends, It’s been a whirlwind of a week for me. My father passed away unexpectedly last week, and then I had ArtWalk Ventura over the weekend ̵...