gingers

I took my boys back to the airport this morning so they could return ‘home’. Feeling so desperately hollow as I watch them snake through the security check line to the conveyored xray machines. Their red heads towering above most the rest as they slowly...

ArtFest recovery and spring break!

ArtFest was all that it professed to be, all that I could’ve hoped for of it and as intense of an event as I remembered from years past. I always leave exhilerated, yet a bit deflated because I know I haven’t lived up to the expectations of all the...
ArtFest 2010

ArtFest 2010

I am off to Port Townsend! I get to teach ‘local’ this week~I’m taking a ferry across Puget Sound, driving to the northern tip of the peninsula, will set up shop in an old captains quarters, sleep in a quaint, refurbished brothel turned hotel and...

uuuuugggggggh

The longings of my heart-while faint under the loss and cacophony of recovery at the onset-have gained strength and courage over the past three months of convicted ‘aloneness’. They intrude on my early morning reading with quick jabs of neediness hitting...
BE.free

BE.free

What does this mean-‘free’? I’ve had a shirt with this statement emblazoned across it for several years now. When I first began wearing it the meaning of ‘free’ was very different than it is now. Then it stood for the breaking free from...

lifes’ creative fluctuation

I haven’t been painting all that much lately. The current series still lies in piles around the studio and covers the walls with their coordinated creative touch. I love to sit and gaze at them, each one unique and sparking a memory of its creation; yet all...