Annie and Eric’s two bears. Last weekend poking around online, I came upon a New York Times interview of Tom Hanks. It’s entertaining and charming – like he is. He’s just written a book of short stories – Nora Ephron was his writing coach; she admonished: ...
I took this photo on the side of Highway 12 in Sonoma. It just happens that I’m painting it now. We’ve been living with wildfires in California for as long as I can remember. The house my family lived in from the time I was a toddler was across the street from...
The trail streaked with orange light – sun shining through smoke in the air. I woke at 4:30am on Monday morning and whispered to Joe that I smelled smoke. He asked me: inside or outside? Outside, I smell wildfire. A bit later I got up to go to the bathroom...
Life has pulled me away from my art a lot these past few months. It is so good to be in my newly beautified “room-of-my-own” working on a painting! Weeks like this one are a challenge for me as a writer – when the world is particularly stirred up – fears,...
I am even happier to be painting in my newly freshened studio. started the project to refresh the inside of our house just after the fourth of July and as of Sunday, we are officially done. Last week we had the hardwood floors refinished which meant that our...
