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Tuesday-Not-Sunday-Evening Art-Gallery-Humor-Blog
I’m sure you’ve seen these posts on Facebook that show a wonderfully huge mansion in the woods/on the water/at the edge of the mountains, and the post says, “If you could live without WiFi and a phone...
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Side Trip — Craig L Haupt
Now and then I like to take little side trips into the lives of some of the artists I highlight both here and in my Art Gallery. Although according to his website (http://clhaupt.com) Craig Haupt has a...
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Practicing this exercise will make you more confident in your creative work
If you have a few spare minutes, come read Maja’s post…get your confidence back and keep it running. We are all artists! Most of the confidence we develop throughout the years stem from our past...
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Keep Your List Long
Due to a change of plans, I am home alone for the weekend. The weather is beautiful, the sun warm, the breeze making my windchimes sing. So far I want to drive to the gas station for flavored coffee,...
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Roots vs. Vines
There are books upon books written about men brains vs female brains. How they are wired, how they work. How they process. This is not a blog to debate the validity of such — I am mere more to prove...
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October is for Dreams
I admit it. I love Fall. Not just because I am at the end of my hot flash phase. But the smells, the sights, the feel of warm afternoons and cool evenings, gorgeous sunsets, cuddling under blankets,...
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Flash Fiction Dreams
October is for Dreams This flash fiction piece was inspired by my first novel (yet to be published), about a woman who drives through a cornfield, crashes into an old oak tree, and wakes up in small...
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Dreams and Nightmares — Nightmares and Dreams
October is for Dreams Nightmares and Dreams. Two sides of the same card. Two sides of the same mirror. Two breaths from the same mouth. We cannot have one without the other. For how can you reach...
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Dreams Give Us Strength
October is for Dreams The other side of night is day. Despair, hope. That is what the dream world provides. An escape from the horrors or pressures or stress of the day, or perhaps a continuation...
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Angels and Witches and Dreams
October is for Dreams Ever since I started this month-long series on Dreams and Nightmares, my night life has really been cranked up. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been focusing more on my crazy...
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Putting On My Big Girl Pants
First off, a dreamy thank you for hanging with me during October and visiting the land of dreams and nightmares. My dreams thank you for checking in on them. But now it’s November and although it’s 63...
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From Chinese Food to Poetry
I was sitting in my favorite Chinese restaurant, waiting for pick up, and was struck with this fun idea for a blog about the Chinese language and their people and traveling and visiting foreign...
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When I’m 64
I wonder if your working world can make a 90 degree turn when you’re 64? I have been a working girl all my life. I didn’t go to college, so I had to learn as I went. Back in the late ’70s an executive...
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Music Makes Magic
I am not what most consider a music junkie, affectionado, expert, or addict. I really do enjoy music, though. I have a soft spot in my heart for banging old tyme rock and roll now and then. Give me...
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2017 Starts With a Whisper
As I sit on my sofa this first day of 2017, smooth jazz in the background, dogs sleeping on their doggie beds (along with Tom the cat), I am surprised at the strange swirl of thoughts that have...
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Balancing the Best of Both Worlds
I’ve come to crossroads in my life. A strange, positive, yet confusing, conundrum. I believe I told you I suffer from “be careful what you wish for” syndrome. All my life I’ve been a writer, but never...
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Write What You (Don’t) Know
Under the stress of writing for both business and personal, I am experiencing something that I have encouraged others to do for some time. If you’ve ever read any of my work (and maybe I should just...
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Where Have My Bloggers Gone?
My method of reading/following blogs is of my own design. I don’t read every day, but rather pick an evening and read through as many as I can. Sometimes I click on “Manage” Reader and go through the...
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Don’t Let The Day Ruin Your Day
It is as if I am handling a puffer fish or prickly bush with my bare hands. The world of politics is truly doing a whirling dervish these last few months. A lot of my friends are afraid, angry,...
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Let’s Cosplay
Sometimes I feel like a fish out of water. A bluejay in a subway. A…you get it. For the longest time I’ve heard the word “cosplay” bantered around in various articles and circles. I always thought...
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