A few miles from our home is a highway that leads to a retail area with practically everything we need. It’s easy. It’s also frenetic. I’ve yet to drive on that road without cars and big-ass trucks cutting me off and tail-gating so closely they could easily connect to my bumper with a zip tie. Taking that route I’d be agitated by the time I arrived in town. Thankfully there is another way. Running parallel […]
My limbs were virtually immobile, arms and legs sticking straight out. I was bound in a stiff, puffy suit cartwheeling through the vastness of space and unable to stop, slow down or course correct. The chilling unearthly silence of an infinite void surrounded me, a black empty sea. My only points of reference, the twinkling white lights going in and out of my vision. I tumbled around and around to what would eventually, surely be […]
Everything about the morning had been ordinary. As usual I was walking my dog Zoe down a well worn path through the woods when unexpectedly, on a small rise next to a sturdy ponderosa pines we were met with a gusty breeze. I stopped. It was as if Mickey Mouse, the sorcerer’s apprentice in Fantasia, his long sleeves falling down around him, frantically waving his master’s magic wand, was conjuring up a whirlwind of the […]
My journey into the world of painting began in college while looking for an elective to fill my schedule. My roommate encouraged me to take the same painting class in which she was enrolled. As luck would have it the class fit my schedule perfectly. I have always loved to do creative things so why not paint. At that time my college career looked like a crazy quilt composed of every art and design class […]
What is it that keeps us tethered to the earth when all around are reasons to float away? It’s early morning and the sky is still dark. A time of magic when all the unknown possibilities a day might hold lie waiting like secrets infused into dew-laden leaves. These liminal moments are fleeting. All too soon the sun will enter the theater and strip away the mysteries under its glare. The shadows will disappear, the […]
The Spill... 