ART + WRITING

  • FURNITURE

      One of my favorite children’s books is Alexander and The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by JUDITH VOIRST. Alexander is having an awful time with chewing gum, and shoes and riding in cars. To him the only way to fix it is to move to Australia.  To him, everything is better  in…

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  • FRIENDSHIPS

     We are all terrible at things we don’t know how to do. I think of a new baby starting to walk, tottering over, holding onto what is around her. Falling over and over, hurting herself, crying. Giving up and then starting over.  This is me and my relationship with friendship.  Not with friends.  I’m actually…

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  • THE WORLD OF MAKE BELIEVE

    One of the struggles I’ve held since childhood is my addictions.  Addictions to stealing, addictions to sugar-primarily Dr. Pepper, Coca Cola and chocolate chip cookies.  But the biggest and hardest to loosen the chains from is my addiction to fantasy.  And not like sexy fantasy, or dragons and rings and fairies and the like. But…

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