No, I cannot figure out how to embed this in my website. That’s why I put it here. While I’m tentatively trying to outsource some of my support work, one thing I’m stuck doing is my website. Furthermore, it has to be done in HTML. I am married to a programmer and my daughter is […]
I told you I’d give you the details of my workshop before anyone else gets them: Paint beautiful Acadia August 7-19, 2016 Now expanded to two weeks! Download a paper registration form. Register online here. Dramatic, inspirational Schoodic Peninsula in Maine’s Acadia National Park will be our base for a second year. By popular demand, […]
Yesterday I got the proof for my upcoming ad for Plein Air magazine back from the designer. It was done by Victoria Brzustowicz of Victoria B. Creative. Not only is it simple and energetic, but she wisely took a red pencil to my copy. I’ve never hired a graphic designer before—it seemed redundant in that […]
I am infrequently knocked off my pins, but I was yesterday. Late morning brought a text that sent me to my knees: “My dad died today.” I met the sender of that text the same day I met her father. I was struggling. I had cancer that had been ignored and allowed to percolate. I was […]
I’ve never had a corporate job. That means I’ve never had an annual review. I wasn’t particularly surprised that it was Satan who called me in, since I’ve heard what others have said about them. I was a little surprised at the venue being Rockport Harbor, however. “I thought you were used to, well, warmer […]
I am out of small toned canvases, so I took a 9X12 with me to paint my quick sketch at Rockport harbor. It’s, well, sketchy, but I needed to be done by noon. As I painted, I watched a man playing fetch with his dog, a tiny little ball of black fur named Moose. As I was packing […]
Imagine the housewife in, say, 1910, making her morning coffee. She comes down the back stairs to empty the ashes from the woodstove and stir what coals are left. After coaxing the embers into life, she might hazard the inside pump, or, if she is a fatalist, she just goes for the jug of water […]
I was in Hannaford yesterday when I realized I wanted to drive hot needles into my skull. No, there is no medical evidence that this actually works, but it is the first symptom that I’m getting a cold. I’d like to blame someone, but that isn’t how viruses function. We wade through a miasma of […]
Everyone has their own organizational system. My friend Dawn uses Flylady. My friend Toby is currently enraptured with KonMari. My system can be described as “put it exactly where I tell you and I won’t kill you.” I’ve been married 35 years; I like things neat and my husband (who doesn’t read this blog) doesn’t […]
Today is the first day I will be working in my own studio since August 9, when I left to teach at the Schoodic Institute. From there I went to Alaska and then to Rochester, and I’m finally home in Rockport. “Start as you mean to go on” is my personal motto, and this first work […]
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