October 14, 2012
A role of beautiful Japanese paper, Shikoku natural paper, 10 meters by 38 inches–80 grams sits in a corner of my studio. Beautiful, beautiful paper. Along […]
October 9, 2012
My friend Alke, is German but lives in the county of Cheshire in England. I live in Cheshire, MA. We met this summer at Penland, and […]
October 7, 2012
Stare. Educate the eye. Die knowing something. You are not here long. WALKER EVANS Will […]
September 30, 2012
I spent the past weekend walking in the woods and revisiting my own writings about walking and wilderness (look for a post about that in the […]
September 23, 2012
Nearly 25 years ago I took my first class in ceramics. First beginning with hand-building and then moving to the wheel. I straddled the wheel, elbow […]
September 19, 2012
On Saturday I spent the day making mail art postcards with pals Karen Arp-Sandel and Suzi Banks Baum at a DIY Fe-Mail Art Workshop at PRESS. […]
September 9, 2012
I’m determined to ride my bicycle to work once a week until it gets too cold for the 30-mile round-trip journey. I go the long way, […]
September 2, 2012
I’ve spent the past couple of days looking for a reliable source to confirm something I read about B.F. Skinner, the famous behaviorist and psychologist. I […]
August 26, 2012
I just returned from a great week in Jamaica with friends Frank Power and Heather Hotchin. Frank lives in Morant Bay, in the foothills of the […]
August 19, 2012
I am becoming reacquainted with my mountain bike. One of my favorite things about mountain biking is the necessity to be completely 100% focused on what […]
August 12, 2012
This phrase was said to me nearly 20 years ago during a silent retreat in Black Canyon City, Arizona at Our Lady of Solitude, an incredible […]
August 5, 2012
There is no denying that the artist is someone who is full of questions, who cries them out in great angst who discovers rainbow answers in […]
July 29, 2012
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world’s end […]
July 22, 2012
I first read The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath during my junior year abroad in Paris, in the days before email and internet, when I would […]
July 15, 2012
When I arrived home after interviewing for my job as Assistant Professor of Art at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Doug presented me with an […]
July 8, 2012
Každý je sám svojho šťastia kováč, a phrase my Grandma Thomas used to say. I come from a line of strong Slovak women. I adored my […]