HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! May your world be at peace May all good things come to you May we all honor, love, and respect you Not just today but every single day! Here are two plants with super healing powers get together in the garden – Isn’t it amazing how plants with such putting-off names can […]
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BLUEBERRY MUFFINS
I’m one of the worst cooks on the planet. But I tried! I tried! I wanted to try to make up for the first batch of blueberry muffs. I was so careful to measure out everything perfectly! And … ummm … then I added twice the amount of blueberries called for. Because, you know – […]
FAT KATZ
An old friend visited. She had her fat cats with her in big ole kitty crates that were so big they took up the entire back of her SUV. I suggested she let them out once we were all inside and the door shut. I should have known how bad an idea that was by […]
OATMEAL COOKIES
I announced last week that I was going to be taking time off social media to focus on my next series of art books. And I did it, too! It was so hard! I missed everyone – seeing their posts, laughing at silly jokes, cussing under my breath at the stupidity humans are capable of. […]
CREATE BEAUTY.
You won’t be sorry, and the world will be a better place. And you’ll feel better, too. Someone asked me where do I get my design ideas. I just look around! Our lives are so full, so rich, so sweet, if we can just see it! Sometimes I get bogged down with problems and confusion […]
NO SOCIAL MEDIA
I’m taking time off social media so I can focus on creating my next series of art books, covering 2021 through 2026, with 200 of my best design images from each year in each book. The first book is already done! Over 200 images of my very best drawings, pastels and designs from 2021. 227 […]
BE KIND
The biggest test of late is this: no matter what happens, can you maintain your equilibrium? Can you remain detached enough from the swirling energy and emotions around you that you can make good choices? Be kind, even in the face of something distasteful? One mis-choice of words or actions can ripple down through years […]
FOUNTAIN of LIFE
Someone asked, what would happen if we jumped out of the Fountain? We all looked at each other, and a silent YES reverberated through each one of us. So we all, all at once, jumped right out of the fountain and into the air! We splashed and played until the sun went down, and swam […]
BIRDIES IN LOVE
Sometimes I feel so completely bowled over by life that I just can’t come up with an uplifting story for the art. Today was one of those days, so I decided to create a design that cheered me up – and it does, thank goodness. I’m seeing it as used in a quilt, or maybe […]
HORSE-LOVE
Lately an odd thing has been happening. Usually I have plenty to tell you about. But lately I have found that there are times I don’t have a story for a design I create – it’s just an alive thing and full of love, waiting for people to see and enjoy it. I love horses. […]
TATERS TOXIC?
I bet you didn’t know that potatoes, being of the Nightshade family, produce tomato-like fruit – that’s poisonous! I only found out because I planted some taters I got at the grocery store that were sprouting. The grocery guy told me to be careful, and about the fruities that would come if I allowed the […]
CRITICAL: BEING SILLY
I find myself consistently amazed at how much strife and upset there is to deal with on a daily basis now. Each day, I think, ‘this is the worst’ – but each day it all seems worse by magnitudes. What a mess. I laugh now – ruefully – that we thought, in the mid-50s, that […]
I MISS the BEACH
I miss only being a short walk to my favorite beach. I miss walking in the foam at the edge of the water, on the sand in my bare footses. I miss the ironwood trees and the stone boat ramp, and the little bitty islets out at the edge of the lagoon. The scent of […]
BELLS & BUGS
Every spring, I watch out my bedroom window as the red bud tree pops out into glorious color. First with tiny bunches of red/pink flowers, then with bright yellow-green heart-shaped baby leaves. You can see the sun through them, they are so transparent. And then, a silent signal blows across the world: Come the Bugs. […]
OUTSIDE MY WINDOW
I’m so lucky! My neighbor has a huge camellia tree right next to the fence right outside my window. Entwined within many of its branches are those of a large red bud tree, most of its limbs reaching for the light over to my right, straining to get out from the camellia’s embrace. So I […]
DERAILED by BELIEFS
All my life, I’ve just had this natural Thing, this urge, this compulsion towards anything to do with art – appreciating it, making it, talking about it, eating-sleeping-breathing it. Making some more . . . Back in school my fellow teen class mates were buying my pencil drawings left and right. In my 20s and […]
SAVED BY HIS KITTY
A couple days ago there was a story posted on facebook about a 4 year-old deaf boy who thought it would be a good idea to traipse on outdoors while his mom took a shower. On a freezing cold day. With only a t-shirt, sweat pants and sneakers on. He never came back that afternoon. […]
RAISE YOUR FREQUENCY!
I hear this in so many places these days. But … but … how do I DO that, pray tell? I was told to think of our human vibrations, or frequencies, like a radio dial. An old-timey one, you know? Where you can see where the needle is on the face of the dial. Tune […]
WISHING ANGELS
Today as I shifted between just barely waking up and being fully awake after a nap, I had a dream/vision of a bunch of tall angels hanging out by my bed. They were waiting for me to pay attention – seems they get impatient with my need for sleep. They had a message for me: […]
SHIFT YOUR ENERGY
As an empath, there are times when I feel so overloaded by happenings that I feel like a quivering mass of glommified human jelly. Useless for all except those who love hospital jello. I bet I’m not the only one who feels like that a whole lot of the time – the world is burning […]
KITTY’S APPLE TREE
Every cat who has made its home with me has loved to climb on up into my lap, plop itself unceremoniously down, and snore away. All day, if possible. No matter if I was working here on my puter, or eating dinner, or writing a book. Climb, plop, snore. Sometimes quite loudly. Oedipuss, a long-legged, […]
WEAR YOUR PET?
Ever thought about that? What if you had a silk scarf with your doggie’s portrait on it! Or, maybe you’d want to have one of your kitty, or your horse, or your hedgehog! Let’s get creative and have some fun, creating a scarf showing all the things you love about your critter. Then you can […]
REFOCUS! REDIRECT!
It can be so hard! All this ughy stuff happening all around us, and we feel helpless, and even numb, like we can’t do a damn thing about any of it. So we sit eyes glued to screens as our energy dribbles and drabbles away and out of our bodies. STOP THAT! Don’t allow that […]
BE A MAKER
“But … but … I don’t know how!” Well bloody well learn how! Do you honestly think life is going to go on smooth as silk in the near future? Look at how our food chain has been majorly fked up by the terrible fires, floods and storms – that mean anything to you? You […]
BLESS THE FAT!
This is something that’s been rolling around in the back of my mind for a while now. Around the beginning of December of 2025, we were seeing a LOT of chem trails – I mean criss-cross plaid skies to the max, every day, dawn to dark! Oddly enough, since then I have gained at least […]
BLUE VIBES
Do you ever feel like you just can’t keep up with it all? Lately it’s as if all my attention has been sucked up by nasty shitty things people do. I don’t much like that. So instead of letting things bog me down, I have decided to take refuge in things I love, that make […]
THE CHASE
Being bad and having fun in my red car when I was a teen on the purple road outside of town – seems like centuries ago! I was a very slow learner – it took me forEVER to figure out driving. I got distracted so easily my instructor almost threw me out of the driver […]
I DREAMED I DIED
It wasn’t so bad. Although the astral kitty over by the door of my bedroom freaked out – “Go back! It’s not your Time! Hurry! Git outta here!” I’m sure his screaming could have been heard all the way across country in NYC! It wasn’t like the near death experiences so many people have. I […]
DELETE ANXIETY
I saw a facebook reel today that really tickled me. It was yet one more coach-guru-advisor-etc guy. I almost scrolled past. But I stopped scrolling by when he said he had a unique way of transforming anxiety in only a minute or two. So since many of the folks I used to work with as […]
SIMPLICITY: TAPPING
Three days ago, an excruciating pain up and stabbed me so bad it was like the spear of an ancient Centurion who hopped out of his grave and ran full-tilt all the way from Rome to jab the living shit out of my hip. I almost fell over on the spot. No one told me […]