Every Day Wishes—not New Year’s Resolutions The end of one year and beginning of a new year prompts all sorts of wishes, word for the year choosing, resolutions and more. I think that all the new year’s hoopla is simply a way for writers, bloggers and marketers to get your Read more…
I recently embarked on a new photography project I’m calling Makers’ Hands. I am photographing the hands of different artists at work creating whatever it is that they create. As always when I stretch myself into a new area in my creative life I discover new things about myself and Read more…
The other day as I was stepping outside the house I looked up to see a group of trumpeter swans flying over my head. With their raucous honking it was impossible to miss hearing and seeing them. They were flying low enough that their tremendous size and wingspan was easy Read more…
It’s okay to have an imperfect life—everyone does “Some days I wake up and all I feel are the fractures in the flesh that covers the only me I’ve ever known. Some days, it’s those exact fissures that let the light hiding inside me pour out and cover in Read more…
Most of the trees in our neighborhood are bare now, and the colorful season of autumn has ended. The leaves on the ground are rapidly losing their color and beginning to disintegrate. And gray skies seem to be more common than blue sunny skies. I’ve reluctantly exchanged my colorful cool Read more…