The pandemic goaded me to paint an owl that looked like I felt! Will Rogers shows me 2020-2022 isn't the only hard spell Americans have had. It was one of the first little paintings I did back when I thought the pandemic would last maybe a couple of weeks. Somehow,...
Advent is a liturgical time of preparation; a season to get myself ready to celebrate a birthday – the birth of Christ the Lord. It begins Sunday, November 29 . . . in the 2020 Pandemic So, out came my Christmas Album by John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers. Few...
Travel options can change in a pandeminic. When you get to be our age, and in this crazy pandemic time, travel options are limited, huh? Because COVID-19 rearranged any travel plans we might have had, we go nowhere. That is, until dear old Doug decided to take an...
As week twelve (or is it thirteen?) begins, and the pandemic continues amidst sporadic social pandemonium current events are crazier. I hoped maybe current events would round a corner today, and we’d be on a better page of history. But, no. I think this meme says it...
On top of the pandemic and economic woes, now we face murder, rioting and looting. It’s like waking up to the headlines of 1968, 24/7. Four policemen took the life of an African-American man, George Floyd ,while a bystander filmed it. Violence erupted . . . All the...
I wonder if an art book called The Pandemic Painting Chronicles would sell, assuming we go back to writing and selling books. The painting I finished today borrows from Matisse, and my memory of our granddaughter’s first pet, Fin the fish, which liked to jump out of...
Here are Some Questions you may be able to answer: Did you hear about Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year? "authentic" No comment, as they say in my English mysteries. You do realize that this time next month, if the Lord allows, 2024 will be about to arrive? I am...
Primary Colors Calling! Some days the primary colors just keep calling. Use me! Use Me! Especially in the interesting times that are today. So too, does the simple shapes in former paintings keep inspiring -- It's why I keep repeating myself. Colors Chalk it up to...
Masking again? Yes— Now, though, I am masking for outside— not inside. Who knew we could live through a CODE PURPLE weather alert day? Good Grief —It’s a good thing we cornered the market on N-95 masks a few months back. These treacherous smoky skies — blanketing...
Looking back, before COVID erupted in March 2020, Doug and I may have had it! Something fast and harsh knocked us for a loop in February. I caught what I thought was a cold and shared. That wasn’t a kind thing. Doug wound up on heavy meds. Shortly after we...
Exhaustion Exhaustion is not an uncommon companion at my age and stage. While this feeling of fatigue reminds me of how I felt in 1968, it is more palpable and David French's description captures well the worn-outness I feel. But, also the hope: “ . . . The...
Half a century ago, we were angry with each other and the government because of the Vietnam war, civil rights — and Watergate. Then the Supreme Court decided abortion was a constitutional right. (9 Things You Should Know About Roe v Wade) Fifty years ago,...
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