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Lauri Packebush. I used the random number generator and it landed on you! Congratulations! Thanks to all of you who came by, and look for more book giveaways on Carla’s blog. You will have more chances there. xooxo to all of you.

Positively a Puppy

Posted on June 29, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 6 Comments

I have been sharing my house and time with a puppy. He is mostly good, very cute, and sometimes naughty. He does something dastardly and then grins and glances—”who, me?” The kids are at camp. Next time I need this time I am sending the dog too. Everything I am working on is a secret [...]

More Faces

Posted on June 24, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment

More faces from my archives. Speaking of drawing, my friend Carla has a new book out, Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists. There will be much more about this here in the near future. My kids are gone to camp, Steve is at work. I am milling around, getting nothing done. Actually, I think I am [...]

Adventure in Italy, September 2011

Posted on April 12, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 3 Comments

I am SO excited to be teaching in Orvieto, Italy in September of 2011. Many people I know have worked with Bill and Kristi Steiner, who run the show over there, and I have heard nothing but positive things about it. WOW! I get to go back to my adoptive roots! My graduate work was [...]

Come on a my house

Posted on April 7, 2010 - Filed Under My Work, Real Life, Uncategorized, What I am up to | 6 Comments

Houses are the one highly overused symbol that I can’t give up. Just can’t do it. I know they are a dime a dozen, yet I keep making them as though originality means nothing to me. The house above is one of a series I did when I was working with house songs, in this [...]

Moore in the Gardens

Posted on April 1, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Yesterday I went on a field trip with the fifth grade class of my son’s school. We went to the Denver Botanic Gardens, where 20 enormous sculptures of Henry Moore have recently been installed. It was my job to shepherd five of those 100 children through the gardens, stopping to sketch and write poetry along [...]

Saying Aloha to Paradise

Posted on March 30, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment

The day has come. I have to leave my little cabin and go home to the family. The birds are in full chorus now as the sun rises, the rain has lulled after a long and busy night, and I have packed and cleaned up. Just finishing up my coffee, and reflecting on my time [...]

Boy Poems

Posted on March 11, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 3 Comments

I am so busy getting ready for Artfest I haven’t come by here, but suddenly am inspired to share two poems with you. First Grade By William Stafford In the play Amy didn’t want to be anybody; so she managed the curtain. Sharon wanted to be Amy. But Sam wouldn’t let anybody be anybody else— [...]

Artfest is a’Comin Up!

Posted on March 2, 2010 - Filed Under 2010 Workshops, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

In three weeks I will be in Port Townsend, Washington at Artfest, where I will be teaching two classes, can you see my name in lights above? This is thrilling for me, both because I think it is a well run, imagination filled event, and because it is on the ocean (I am crazy about [...]

Teeter Totter

Posted on February 25, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment

In the last few weeks I have been up and down so often it feels like the teeter totter I used to ride in Lacy Park. It has been the kind of ride that means I am way heavier than the one facing me, who is up. I am keeping her there. Then suddenly, I [...]