In April my long time friend Carolyn drove from California north to Playa retreat in Summerlake, Oregon. I drove south to same from Salem and we spent five wonderful days, talking, laughing, working in the studio there. It was quiet…only two other people there and we rarely saw them. It was beautiful. Birdsong all day. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yesterday I found this box in the studio…while searching for something else. I’d forgotten about this series of collages I made sometime in the last decade…using old photos and other bits and bobs. I called them “Notes to Myself” and I still understand what I was telling me and they delighted me, as old work […]
As I try and shake off winter, a quick trip to California was just the thing. On Saturday, March 8th, a show opening at the Partners’ Gallery in Mendocino featured my work and the work of Sacramento collage artist Lisa Culjis. Lisa (on the left) was invited by Partners member Miriam Davis, while I was […]
If you have an Apple product I sincerely hope you never encounter the rolling ball of death, like I have, on occasion. My computer was old by some standards (12 years) and had had two hard drive replacements. I really stopped writing this blog because I was doing it on my phone which, though possible, […]
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 […]
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 […]
There are so many topics we don’t address in relationships, and in our culture. At the end of Roger’s life we covered many of these (did you have a happy life, do you have regrets,) but, of course, we didn’t discuss the life I would have. Though we edged around it…me wondering/Roger: “I love to plan,” we […]
Three years of masking, staying in, making art in the dining room. Three years of absent friends, freezing chats on the front porch, accepting help with shopping, baking a lot of bread. The careening through traffic jams to the fairgrounds and swearing “Yes, we’re health care professionals “ (ha) for that first vaccine. Finished. We […]
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