Penny Purrfect has passed… I am very sad.
Alas, Penny Purrfect has passed. She woke this morning being very slow and quiet. She normally lingers in my bed when I’m doing morning chores and then moves to the dining room where she’d be in the hammock, on top of the hutch, or sit on the round rug and talk to me while I’m cooking lunch. Other times she would be in the living room laying on the sofa or in the cat bed on the swivel chair especially if we were watching TV. Instead today, she ‘catloafed’ near my...
Read MoreA New Year
So much has occurred over the last 5 years… first was buying a home in New Orleans, next was moving my youngest son here as his situation up north was intolerable. Not long afterwards in April, my sister Virginia discovered she had 4th stage ovarian cancer… she passed away on June 23, 2020. I miss her immeasurably, not to mention that one of my Muses passed as she was an inspiration. Sketching or doing anything creative became painful as it made me think of her, perhaps? Or was it...
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For a long time I’ve often thought of my Muses in light of Jim Borgman’s cartoon of leaving the window open at night, with a plate of cookies and a glass of wine while laying in bed pretending to be asleep waiting for the Muse to arrive… trust me I’ve been feeling it for the last few weeks… How does anyone combat the lethargy of waiting for something to happen. It seems that has been the status quo for the last decade – waiting for something to happen…...
Read MoreDaily life
At first I was feeling guilty that I stayed up late and wasn’t getting up at my usual 9 a.m. Either I was hanging out with my son or I was just either watching the latest posts on YouTube, Facebook, and even Twitter… thinking to myself, “Oh gawds, please! someone to have an original thought and not be someone’s pocket… I don’t think such a thing exists. These days I look beyond NPR or AP as everyone has their twist on the news. All is open to interpretation....
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Thank you for stopping by. I’m slowly deciding whether I want this to be a blog or just a site to share my sketches, artwork, knitting, and costuming. It’s an evolving site. Previously it was just my professional career in art and consumer packaging. However, after 10 years of being out of the professional market – it’s sort of silly to continue to pimp my production work. Currently, I am living with chronic pain of trigeminal neuralgia, spinal stenosis, degenerating...
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