It was just two years ago when, on the same day, these two brothers departed this world. Roger was the oldest child (of six), Chris three years younger. Roger had, in a way most of us do not, almost total recall of his early childhood in Salamanca, New York. He told me late in his […]
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“The Snail Blog – Keeping in Touch”
Last night was the opening for an exhibition/installation at the Salem Art Association’s Focus Gallery, a long time in the making…16 years to be exact. It is some of the 5000+ postcards I’ve received from my friend Ellen Crockett in Vermont…one a day every day for 16 years. For her it became a meditation, a […]
Conversation
A big life change, like the loss of a partner, leaves you with a puzzle. How to put the pieces of your life back together in a meaningful way…how to think your way through the snarl of feelings and grief, but then new people, new stuff, new activities. HOW do we do this, how do […]
Bird Book
My friend Christine is an artist, a long-time teacher, a good listener. A friend. We’ve been drawing together for years, over lunch at hers or mine. We know a lot of each other’s stories, the same stuff makes us laugh…she’s a gem. The foundation isn’t that though, it’s drawing. We both have the habit of […]
Eunice
Eunice Parsons. Artist, teacher, mentor, mother, friend, neighbor, scrabble whiz. Artist. Eunice died last year at 108, ready to go. Monday at Mark Humpal’s gallery, formerly the 12×16 Gallery, friends, students, family, neighbors gathered to talk about her out loud to each other for one last time. Those comments, those images, aren’t on this page […]
Snail Blog Update
Longtime readers of this blog may remember that my friend Ellen has been sending me a postcard from Vermont everyday for 12 years. This fall I made a trip to see her just before the momentous card number 5000 came. We talked about friendships, memories, communication, life, death…all the subjects you might imagine….and a few […]
Surviving…and thriving?
Friday it will be 6 months since Roger Hull left us…the kind of anniversary I have learned the grief stricken notice. His birthday has passed, the big winter holidays have passed, I have achieved 80…which he really really wanted but wasn’t able to make. In some ways I’ve learned more in the last six months […]
SHOWING UP
Well a lot has happened since I addressed this blog. I’m out of the habit of musing (except internally). In early October The funny, thoughtful, handsome and gifted Roger Hull left this world after a long and often harrowing battle with prostate cancer. He remained interested in the process of dying until the very end, did a […]
SUMMER!
It’s been soooo long since I’ve written I’m not sure I remember how to post. Our lives are as convoluted as ever but in different ways these days. As we dash into summer with a spate of perfect weather our next door neighbors (our grandkids) are keeping things wet and wild. Last weekend the parents […]
Birthday Thoughts
My day was special to me with friends and family, a phone call from Spain, great presents…and in one of the cards a friend wrote a poetic note which included these words which describe so nicely the way I feel today: “The longer we live the more we fathom, the more it is a mystery, […]
On The Way 