Feb 28, 2017 | Random Thoughts |
I call these photos “Still Life with Flu” – the little stories in the arrangement of bowls and cups and half-eaten toast that I discover when I walk back into a room. I’ve spent the last 9 days mostly flat on my back, epic coughing jags, mostly...
Jan 28, 2017 | Random Thoughts |
The piecrust lodged in my emotional throat when I was 8 and it’s been there ever since. I was 8 and I was visiting the home of my sworn enemy. I can’t remember her name. I didn’t even remember she was my enemy until some relative – I can’t remember who –...
Jan 3, 2017 | Random Thoughts, Re-DHC |
Don’t do more … hide less. This is what my pirate buddy Karen Montanaro reminds me all the time, though I always forget who she’s quoting, and then she reminds me its Jerzy Growtoski. (“How will I ever remember this?” I asked her...
Jan 2, 2017 | Random Thoughts |
I stand up for you you who did not find the partner who supports you and i mean your spirit, your heartbroken longing to sing out loud in your own voice I stand up for you you, whose tiny glories pale as you see other glories gloried you, who could never say “I...
Aug 29, 2016 | Random Thoughts |
I belong to a secret facebook group with two friends from a former success mastermind. We 3 failed out of it. This secret group is the only place I can come and vent and bitch and whine and not feel the shame of spiritually farting in public. In this secret place we...
Feb 3, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Random Thoughts |
The articulation of human experience is your job. It is your whole job as an artist. (thus said my inner Nanny to me last night) Well … that’s almost your whole job. The other part is sharing it. Don’t roll your eyes at me. Remember …...
Feb 1, 2016 | Random Thoughts |
You are a catalyst for belonging. When you step onto a stage – you make a place for each person in the audience to belong there. And because all the world is a stage, no matter what you’re doing, you can step onto it. You represent your audience on that stage....
Sep 7, 2015 | Random Thoughts |
Do you march to different underwear? Share on X My grandmother tried to put the fear of underwear in me: what if I had an accident, someone saw my underwear – and it was ratty? So, here’s where my aesthetic differs from hers: I LIKE the look of...
Aug 21, 2015 | Mom, Random Thoughts |
It was in Calaveras County, in the foothills of the Sierras in the ’60’s. I was 6. We went to a forestry preserve – maybe a fishery, and likely in Big Trees State park. We walked into a small flat meadow, where a forest ranger in short sleeves knelt...
Aug 20, 2015 | Random Thoughts |
On Saturday, it became imperative I fill one wall of my studio with drawings of my – how do I say this – my 2-dimensional friends. It’s the only thing I know to call them. I’m not trying to be cute. I dragged the deskjet color printer up from the first floor. I...
