inspiration
I discovered that life is a dance on my first trip to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. I made a right turn and walked into a room full of paintings by Jackson Pollack and Mark Rothko. I was so captivated by the energy emitting from the paintings that I began to cry and dance. (I […]
I sit here on Valentine’s Day 2022 pondering this commercialized holiday of obligatory love. If you can’t tell from that first sentence, I loathe Valentine’s Day. My skin crawls every time I have to walk past a stuffed red teddy bear holding a cliched heart saying, “I Wuv U!” Seriously? Do we really need to […]
Don’t give your couch an inferiority complex with the art. Your art does not have to match the couch.
My adventure to the Big Apple helped get me out of a dark place after the passing of my sister. It awoke a sense of wonder that was lying dormant yet urging me to come out and play.
Ahh, the beginning of a new year and we face the pressure of the New Year’s resolutions that are quickly discarded by January 5th. This year I gave in by 10:00 am on January 1st, by making pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast. I could hear the Little Debbie brownie whispering in my head, “You’re […]
Deciding to live the life you want is a leap of faith. There is no guarantee that everything will be hunky-dory sunshine and rainbows, but you will discover a multitude of things about yourself. Here are 9 books that helped me take that leap.
How To Find The Person Buried Within Here it is. That one post where I reveal the truths about myself that NO woman ever wants to reveal, my age, weight, and height. As an artist, I am used to exposing my soul to a gallery wall. I’ve even exposed my nude self on a […]
Inspiration is great, it’s what keeps the soul alive, but it’s the influences that encourage action to be taken.