December 11, 2025
I still remember the moment when my husband said to me, “Everything doesn’t have to be big.” We were driving somewhere. I had just announced that […]
December 2, 2022
Join me in my studio at Greylock Works on Saturday, December 10 and Sunday, December 11, from 11am -2pm for a peek into the processes that […]
December 2, 2022
Join me at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield as I hold space for quiet creation, where making becomes a place of comfort and joy, during this […]
January 7, 2020
A big thanks to everyone who participated in my 2019 Advent Calendar Collage-A-Day Challenge. The experiment this year was a good one–establishing a list of prompts […]
November 28, 2019
Can’t wait to begin on Sunday, December 1! Hope you will join me. Advent Collage-A-Day Calendar Rules 1) Make a collage, make it small, or […]
November 24, 2019
Anticipation. So much of life is about the anticipation. Forget the actual event sometimes, right? I’m preparing for my annual Advent Collage-A-Day Calendar Practice and I […]
December 25, 2018
Merry Christmas! Whether you’ve been traveling with me over these past 25 days or not, I wish you some time today and into the new year […]
December 24, 2018
The Winter of Listening … What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence. What […]
December 23, 2018
My husband is a physiatrist. Some people know what kind of physician that is, others think I’ve said podiatrist. Physiatrists, or Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) […]
December 21, 2018
We are always on a journey from darkness into light. At first, we are children of the darkness. Your body and your face were formed first […]
December 20, 2018
One of my favorite holiday songs is the 25th of December by Everything but the Girl. While it’s from 1994, my strongest memory of it is […]
December 19, 2018
Today is one of those cold, winter days with impossibly blue skies. I set out into it for a morning walk and the bronchi in my […]
December 18, 2018
“But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression…the dark side of the Force are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it […]
December 16, 2018
Sometimes I struggle between wanting to maintain the status quo and wanting to disrupt everything around me. The line by Mrs. Flax in Mermaids often comes […]
December 15, 2018
How careful was I when I took my way, Each trifle under truest bars to thrust, That to my use it might unused stay From hands […]
December 14, 2018
Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian designer living and working in New York City. I don’t remember when I first encountered his work, it might of been […]