Once upon a time I had a blog. It was a friendly little blog that was happy being just the way it was with no great aspirations of one day growing up and hangin’ with the big blogs.  I did what I wanted on that blog – wrote what I wanted, posted pictures that made [...]

I didn’t know Karla before she visited my house for the launch party for this site, but she’d been reading my blog and knew enough about me to know that she’d be interested in hanging out with me for an evening.  I’m so glad she did, because it didn’t take long to recognize that Karla [...]

It all started with a map.
I love maps. This was one of those old fashioned sepia-toned maps that I’d used as inspiration for my treasure hunt. I cut a piece of it and glued it to my art journal.  On one corner of the map, I stuck a photo of a woman in a safari [...]

Perhaps I’ll just retire and let Maddie take over the blog. Or maybe I’ll just have a monthly “Art with Maddie” segment.
(After we recorded this, she suggested I send the video to “that guy who painted the Mona Lisa”. I informed her that he was dead, but assured her there would probably be other artists [...]

One day in the early Spring of this year, when this website was busy getting born in my brain, I came across Christine Mason Miller’s story of how she was leaving copies of her book, Ordinary Sparkling Moments, in little brown paper packages in random places in different parts of the world as gifts [...]