I know this is an art blog so I will make this non art post short.  Yesterday Chris and I went to IHOP for breakfast. (Love the Swedish crepes with lingenberries).  We are sitting talking and drinking coffee.  They seat an elderly man in a booth right next to ours.  I mean he was on [...]

I have to admit, I’m not fond of watercolor pencils. They do help with some things in a painting, but to do a whole painting using them is just not as much fun for me. I miss the wet on wet washes etc. So, I decided to bite the bullet and get [...]

I’ve been in bed mostly for months now and haven’t been able to paint because of it. But, my friend Patti thought maybe I could use pastels and paint with them in bed. I love pastels, but they can be quite messy. I decided to bring out my watercolor pencils and give [...]

In 2002, my life kind of fell apart. I was blindsided by a divorce after 18 and 1/2 years of marriage. Now, this marriage had been in trouble almost from the beginning. But, being Catholic and being stubborn, my husband and I kept plugging away at it hoping that at some point [...]

I guess the reason I wanted to post about stress is that we all have it and we all deal with it a little differently. I didn’t know how to deal with it very well for many years. I would stuff it and then it would have to eventually come out [...]

Since it is the holidays, I thought I would write a little about stress. We all have stress, some of us more than others. During the holidays it is a particularly stressful time. Of course most of this stress we put on ourselves. We want things to be perfect, the decorations, [...]

I have my “old” blog back. I will try to stay on focus with this blog. It will be about my life as an artist living with several chronic pain illnesses. I want to talk about how I came to be an artist and how I came to have these chronic illnesses. [...]