Category: life

  • My Heart

    My Heart

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    An experimental creation with palm fiber reveals a continuous healing.

  • The Challenge of Selling Art

    The Challenge of Selling Art

    I signed up for an art selling challenge.

  • My Life’s Puzzle

    My Life’s Puzzle

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    Art creation slows down as other aspects speed up.

  • New Rhythms & Routines

    New Rhythms & Routines

    It’s my son’s last week of school and part of my brain is in a panic. Like Chicken Little, it’s stuck in a loop – change is coming! Change is coming!

  • Sighing my way through another transition

    Sighing my way through another transition

    Big news! I finally upgraded my site to a business plan – where I can have a store. After trying some other things that didn’t work out – Etsy, Shopify – I’m now proceeding with my original plan. (And trying to do better at following my instincts from the start.) Over the weekend, my homepage…

  • Transitions

    Transitions

    Woo hoo! After an unsuccessful attempt at setting up an Etsy store, I now have a store on Shopify. I have three products listed and hope to add some more next week. The last month and a half has been a bit of a whirlwind with leaving the library, sickness, holidays, back strain, and so…

  • Moving into the Light

    Moving into the Light

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    Happy Solstice! The original winter holiday. Also Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Joyous Kwanzaa! I am so looking forward to saying goodbye to 2022.

  • Early “retirement”

    Early “retirement”

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    It was bittersweet to receive this lovely card from one of the admin departments last week for hitting 15 years with my organization. Three of those years were as an intermittent librarian, as I also worked at the Arizona Health Sciences Library as an information associate while going to school. When I finally got the…

  • In the middle of the night

    In the middle of the night

    I woke to the sounds of laughter and screaming.A group of raucous teenagers walking down the road?NoA pack of coyotes was singing in front of the house.I popped out of bedWith a joyous heartHoping to catch a glimpse of themFrom the window.My nervous dog followedAnd I didn’t want her barking.Cautiously, I peered out the windowBut…

  • There is so much

    There is so much

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    Happening in my life right now. It’s overwhelming. I’m trying to remember to be kind to myself. Take more time for breath work. Snuggle. And to try to appreciate the beauty that appears suddenly in front of me.