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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
I first published this on my birthday in 2009, but I still think it tells my story…and now it comforts and delights me to see it and remember, especially this year as I reach a rather spectacular age: Today is my birthday and I’ve attained a certain age. I have plans, things to do, places […]
This is no orderly remembrance, no chronological marching down the years. This is a combination of memories and joy in the life and deep regret for the loss to our art community. George has left the room. George liked art and making most of all, and the people who understood that. I composed many sentences, […]
A few years ago I bought some cards from MOMA. I ordered a box of cards by the artist Louise Bourgeois called “What is the Shape of this Problem?” But when the cards arrived, there were two boxes of 18 instead of one. I wasn’t sure I knew that many people who would “get” the […]
It’s graduation day, June 13, 1970. Dyche Stadium, Evanston, Illinois. The young man came to Northwestern University in 1966 from Whitman College, and in four short years earned an MA and a PhD…and found a wife. Soon after the photo-op they hitched their VW Bug to a UHaul truck and headed west…he returning to the […]
Last weekend was the “Sheep to Shawl” event at the Willamette Heritage where I (and 10 other artists) am lucky enough to have studio space. We chose this moment to reopen studios…for the first time in two years. Since the last open studio I’ve moved to a bigger studio on the main floor, where many […]
A rainy, cold, dreary February Saturday. There’s a war. There’s illness. We can’t go for a walk. In an effort to find something positive to do, I decided to fix the girls’ heads and for a moment, it was an antidote. The doll on the right was my mother’s doll, now about 100 years old […]
On The Way 