Recently, I went to a local artist festival. Had a nice time in the perfect weather....sitting on my blanket by the water. First time...

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton

An Ode to Fearless Women I think your bones were made in an elsewhere place How else does anyone explain this inconceivable strength that...

“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will...

A Bird, came down the Walk BY EMILY DICKINSON A Bird, came down the Walk - He did not know I saw - He bit an Angle Worm in halves And...

I'm a mom, a wife, I have a full-time job, I instruct yoga and, I paint. Is it cliché to say that painting is therapy for me? While I'm...

After much inner dialogue, struggle and debate, I made the decision to cut back on my teaching (yoga) during the week. It's been nice to...

“It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.” Henri Matisse While trying to find inspiration, recently, I...

... tenuous, flighty, conceited, naturally bright and awesomely beautiful.

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are...

Now when you pick a pawpaw Or a prickly pear And you prick a raw paw Well next time beware Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw When...

re·cov·er·y / rəˈkəv(ə)rē / noun a return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength. the action or process of regaining possession...

"Believe in the holy contour of life." Kerouac

T-Rex got a balloon. “those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that.” Bukowski

A little peek into one of my sketchbooks. I have several art journals but, this Moleskine is the one I usually keep nearby when I'm on...