starting in on “dark hearts” It’s September. It’s after Labor Day. The BIG SUMMER has ended. I thought to myself: “Now I can re-enter my

I was intrigued by a passage in Gombrich’s book in which he was writing about seeing. He mentioned that a person who gains sight later

This summer I’ve been slowly digesting Gombrich’s The Story of Art. I had my fair share of art history in the classroom. But even the

For a couple of wonderful years, I was part of an online art group. Once a week we would talk. Between, I blogged. I was

August 13. How did that happen? With lots and lots of away-from-the-computer time is how. With lots of time in the woods and water and

GREEN! So much rain. So much green. (see that kind of stalk of a tree mid-distance? My mother, no longer alive, told me its name

Could Peaches be any closer to that fan??? It’s hot. It’s suuuuummmmer. Amanda was asking me yesterday where my horse art was – (she’s only

…technology is taking over so many aspects of our lives that I think there’s a need for a small tribe of makers to keep up

The raspberries are coming ripe. So good. So few. When I was making my first decisions about this garden, years ago, there was an abundance

80 percent: how good my inner ear is now. That’s what my dear acupuncturist told me. I’ve gotten so accustomed to this not-quite- centered feeling