I recently read an article that said to have a happy life you need to do something EVERYDAY that makes you happy. If you love to draw that’s so easy…drawing books and pens fit nicely into a purse…insurance against any “slow” moment…all good. …and SOME days are really happy days because drawing and coffee join […]
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On the Picket Line
“Picketing is a form of protest in which people (called picketers) congregate outside a location where an event is taking place. Often, this is done in an attempt to draw public attention to a cause.” It’s been a LONG time since I’ve been on a picket line. Tonight I joined a few intrepid activists on […]
The Quilting Year Begins…
The lovely Tuesday quilt group met this morning at Lynda’s…always fascinating. She has with an eye and a sensibility close to my own. She has new quilts, collects old weird quilt tops that maybe have something quirky about them, and makes interesting combinations…always. Here’s what we were looking at today…her own quilt on the bed…I […]
Off We Go Into 2015
Since 1992 we’ve spent the first week of most years at the beach, where often it is sunny and bright. We slow down after the holiday rush, sleep in, walk the beach and plan the year ahead. This year the first day of the new year looked like this…
Another Hospital Disaster…Urban Logging
As long as we’ve lived in Salem the darned hospital has been destroying, burning, and now logging land for more buildings, more parking. The original hospital was in a residential neighborhood, near the university…a neighborhood we aspired to live in BUT, by the time we could buy a house, the neighborhood was gone for parking […]
Ready for Christmas
An ALMOST wordless Wednesday…I survey the house and see we are ready…have a lovely holiday readers…xo
‘Tis the Season…
Even if you aren’t exactly in the Christmas mood, stuff just starts coming into the house…Ellen’s yummy fruitcake? Yep… ho.ho.ho… Better go write some cards…now that I have the stamps…
Festivities…
What a week…I narrowly survived the festivities! It’s been foggy…R got this amazing picture the other day…down by the river… I got a tour of the new Children’s Room remodel at the Salem Public Library… was on a panel for city club talking about interesting places in Salem, places of community…(with stellar panelists Sarah Evans, […]
Sleuthing Louis Bunce
The first 40 pages of the initial draft are written for the monograph Roger Hull is writing about painter Louis Bunce (1907-1983). Bunce was active in the art life of Portland, Oregon, for some 50 years, spending 6 years during that time in New York City. He was a student at the Art Student’s League […]
The End of Fall
I haven’t been slacking exactly, except maybe for reporting things here… What a fall it has been…kind of a whirlwind of activity including birthdays… new studio, sewing, family, art, writing, house projects…THANKSGIVING! …a walking boy… family and feasts are good… and the END of the fall fix-up! Yay! On we go…
On The Way 