Feb 26, 2013 | Blog
I think it was Edna Ferber (Giant author) who said the work of writing must be done, “sick or well”, or, I might add, if the muse sprinkles fairy dust or not. Recently, I had to write an artist’s statement for a fellowship. In a page or less I had...Feb 25, 2013 | Blog
Here’s a pretty picture taken this morning to thank you for all the notes about my ankle. I didn’t mean to alarm you. I’m really fine. Sort of. I have the cold and flu thing that’s going around, and since my ankle gave out at the same time and...Feb 24, 2013 | Blog
Nora Ephron is at a private film screening. There are not enough seats for the crowd and more people keep arriving. The host suggests they double up and sit on laps. Nora observes all this with mounting frustration, finally she tells her friend Bob: “It’s...Feb 22, 2013 | Blog
It’s that happy dance, we have survived the worst of it, kind of time. It’s been raining on the beach and snowing in the mountains and there’s more daylight here now than in Aruba. It’s light enough to walk the dogs right after Morning...Feb 19, 2013 | Blog
There were two pages of letters to the editor in the most recent paper, prompting my daughter so say, “It must be February.” And two fires in 24 hours, which is odd, the Horton’s big shed caught fire and a little guest cabin on Mud Bay Road burned...Feb 17, 2013 | Blog
It is Lent, and at our church we began the 40 day season of fasting, prayer, and spiritual reflection with a service this week on Ash Wednesday. We were reminded in the most graphic of ways that we come from dust and to dust we will return, with a cross of ashes...
