BEYOND HERE THERE ARE DRAGONS!                                                                                     This is what old map makers would write at the edges of maps when new worlds were yet to be discovered. When they still worried that sailing beyond known boundaries might have them falling off the edges of the known world. The fear of the unknown was fearsome…More

KOYAANISQATSI. Have you ever heard this word before? It’s a HOPI word that means – life out of balance. When I find myself struggling , it’s often a result of having something in my life out of balance. It can happen all too easily. You start a new project. You decide to diet, begin an…More

I’m standing in my garage looking at everything that was previously in my Reno studio. The sight of my ‘ art stuff ‘ relegated to a cold , dirty, dark, garage makes my head hurt. It’s a nightmare begging for organization. By choice I have given my studio space up to my step-son while he…More

Most people don’t know that there is a second Grand Canyon in the United States. Well, there is, and it’s in the northern panhandle of the great state of Texas.  Palo Duro Canyon,  the second deepest canyon, though nowhere near as vast as the Grand Canyon. Still, ancient and once filled with dinosaurs like it’s…More

I’m on the second day of a ten day road trip heading into Canyon , Texas. Yesterday while driving through west Texas we passed a grand old homestead. At least it must have been at one time. Now it called out from the road to be looked at just maybe one last time. It was…More

My maternal grandmother , Catherine Feldman, lived with us when I was a girl. I was in second grade when she  moved in, shortly after her husband died. And there she stayed as a household fixture until she had a stroke and was cared for at  The Brother’s of Mercy Nursing Home, right up the…More

There was a time in my corporate career when I traveled extensively, both here and abroad. I suppose it was primarily why I endured the commercial art world as long as I did. Plus, it was a great paycheck and I was more than happy to be employed at least in an arts related field….More

A poem by Elizabeth Coatsworth To think I once saw grocery shops With but a casual eye And fingered figs and apricots As one who came to buy. To think I never dreamed of how Bananas sway in rain And often looked at oranges And never thought of Spain. And in those wasted days I…More

Are you a book reader?  For me it’s both adventure and wonder on paper. I just finished reading Philip Caputo’s , The Longest Road – Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean. I was drawn to the book  not only because is it a travel adventure in a vintage Airstream…More

An old friend asked me this morning, “Of all the places you have ever lived, regardless of who you were living with or what was going on in your life, which is your favorite?” I have lived in many places. Some for years at a stretch, some for shorter periods and have to say there…More

Wall Street Journal  – dateline Sat/Sun November 30-December 1, 2013 . REVIEW section, front page feature article , THE BOOMER BUST, by P. J. O’Rourke – essayist. P.J. O’Rourke has a thing or two to get off his chest about  being one of and observing the 75 million odd baby boomer generation. He seems to…More

” Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture your heart.”                                                    – Ancient Indian Proverb