Dear Friends, I have written this post at least five times—each version very different from the others—and never found the right tone as my own life did the roller-coaster thing that happens when you get a shocking diagnosis. Today, however, I’m launching on in. Sometimes you just have to do
Master Painter Milford Zornes was a friend of my family for more than fifty years, but my own adult friendship with him didn’t happen until he and his wife Pat moved back to Claremont, CA. in 2001. We started working on a book together, so I was with him at
Dear Friends, We’re already wading into 2013 up to our knees in the fast-flowing river of the new year. Here is an update on the latest new thing. Recently, Earthen Vessel released our first DVD, Speaking for Fire. A video of James BlueWolf’s award-winning children’s book by the same name.
I sit before a blank sheet of d’Arches watercolor paper. It says, “You’d better be good.” Are you kidding? I haven’t painted in six years. There’s no way I’ll be any good. Brush strokes reveal immediately whether your hand and your brain are cooperating. It’s like playing piano. You can’t
I’m now feeling enough energy that I’ve joined a water aerobics class in my neighborhood pool. This is remarkable when you understand I have an anxiety of being in water stemming from my tendency to swim like a stone. The women are very kind, however; they keep me away from