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Ms.Frizzle-meets-Art-Hoe aesthetic
What are your favorite emojis? 🙃🙈🫣 Are some of my most frequently used emojis. I don’t text or use social media like Instagram, and I try to convey emotion through words. So I’m not on that alternate keyboard often. All of three of these emojis represent a kind of silly embarrassment: “Whoops!” “I made a… Continue reading
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Somethin’ to Talk About
What topics do you like to discuss? arts, crafts, creation,good books, new information,living well, motivationhow to avoid inflammationdifferences in a generationculture, modern degradationour feelings, validationvalues, parental obligation travel to a new destination,being yourself, no imitationtaking pause, rest, recreationland, earth, vegetationenvironment,interior decorationthrift-flip, mend, alterationreducing clutter, organization,community participationthat which brings you elation,yours or my latest fixation,who we… Continue reading
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Treating Endometriosis Pain with Hormones
When is the last time you took a risk? How did it work out? Today, when I had a procedure done. Continue reading
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Abandonment Risk
Describe a risk you took that you do not regret. Loving people. With love, I will get hurt. I don’t believe that love is inherently hurtful. I’m sensitive to average relational experiences. Continue reading
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My First Metal Sculpture: Weekend Welding Workshop at The Steel Yard
What makes you nervous? The Oxy-Acetylene Torch Continue reading
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Burnout Cure: The Cleansing Ritual
How do you unwind after a demanding day? I used to let my mental health spiral out of control. I’d be overwhelmed, overworked, and drowning, but I’d keep tending to the needs of my children, husband, home and community instead of reaching for a life preserver. I thought I was being good. I thought that… Continue reading
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Cut the Roses
I’ve written before about a good friend of mine, a neighbor who’s pushing eighty. This friend does a little somethin’ that’s familiar from my punk rock days called dumpster diving, and loves to share the spoils. Continue reading
About Me
I’m an artist. Sometimes I paint impressionist townscapes in oils, other times I sketch out what I’d rather be painting in pencil. I design intentional environments in my home, and sometimes I get around to projects that the design consists of. I flip thrifted clothes, or I let ideas pile up like used fabrics overflowing from a box in my basement. This is a metaphor, but also a fact.
I’m a writer. Sometimes that means bad poetry. I often meander in my prose, as I find it hard not to mention every detail, what something reminds me of, and all of the background information you could never want.
I’m an explorer. Sometimes I explore the great outdoors, or other countries. Other times, my nose deep in a book, I’m exploring the universal human experience, nature science, ancient wisdom and impacts of colonialism. Often, I’m exploring my own inner experience through train-of-thought journaling.
I’m restless in my curiosity and consistently creative. To an outsider, it’s clear that leading a creative life involves output: paintings, outfits, decor, a garden. The creative knows that this output requires a frequent stream and synthesis of that input. This blog is the space I use to organize and sort my meandering thoughts and pile of ideas.