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I believe the creative process is a powerful tool to fight anxiety and self-discovery is inherent within the process. By showing my work and process, my hope is for people to be encouraged to open their own hearts to an understanding and devotion of their own creativity that is more intentional.
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Before I began to craft my blog in 2011, I’d like to tell you I was an avid follower of many other fabulous bloggers. But I wasn’t. I happened into this in a lurching sideways manner. Over these past couple years though, I’ve read and followed a fair number of them. The best of which…
What you do for your bosses, husband, and children they’ll come to expect. I coined this expression when I used to clean houses for a living. I was kind enough to wash and redistribute towels in a client’s bathroom. And the next time I cleaned for her, she was indignant that I’d not done this…
I have a little song that I made up for Fiona. And every time I sing it, she stops and smiles because she recognizes it. Sometimes I use it to calm her down when she’s headed for a fussy jag and I need another minute or two to finish what I am, soon to be…
My girlfriend commented once after driving into Denton down my street, Gay Street, that there seemed to be a lot of crooked little houses. And it reminded me of the poem. There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile. He bought…
Thankfully, we had a reprieve in the weather here in Maryland in August. Usually so ridiculously hot and humid that we all huddle inside our air-conditioned houses and pray our children survive to see the first day of school. Because the lack of exercise, except for the McDonald’s playland , makes them, and you, punchy…
Down here on the “slower lower shore” in Caroline County, Maryland, they have an Annual Wheat Threshing Steam & Gas Engine Show in August. This was their 53rd. Located on the route south from Denton, Maryland to Federalsburg, this hootinanny is held in a great big field and features an antique tractor show, flea market…
Plants are like friends, they’re here today and gone tomorrow. You enjoy them so much when you have them.They are part of the landscape. And as seasons change and life choices are made, you suddenly realize that the plant/friend you used to see here or there just isn’t anymore. And all you have left is…
I was aware that the plein air festival was going down in Easton as it does every July. I’d seen some of the artists out painting as I visited Moonvine. When I got wind that Sunday was a kids classes day, I took the opportunity to create a field trip with my little artists,Eamon and…
I needed to go visit my dear friend Pama last week and let her hold my Fiona. I was never more impressed than when she held Eamon as a baby and lolled him and rocked him like the pro that she is. She is an Easton shop owner. And the newest Moonvine that I walked…
There are cornfields here that probably look much like the cornfields in Iowa. Or Ohio. But these are the ones that surround the turn in the road I took to land me far away from the city I called home my whole life. And the locals, they are the kind you don’t mind trusting. They…
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