What does the word art mean, anyway? When you hear it, do you think of a Georgia O’Keefe painting or a MIchelangelo work – something FAMOUS? Or is it more amorphous for you: the way you live your life, the…

Have you discovered something inadvertantly, and then you want it for everyone? That was true for me in terms of my art. In terms of my art on cloth. Which… yes, I found in Colorado. Okay, not that summer of…

Do you know that Bob Marley song about the little birds? “Woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun” (something like that..) And the little birds sing to him. So yesterday morning, I myself woke up and …. I…

Do you remember a moment when your life changed? When you had only known one way to think of yourself and then… wow! Here’s another? I was born in Virginia, 72 years ago. That’s a while ago. I went to…

Start with yellow. That was Kaji Aso’s instruction, day one of water color class at the Museum School in Boston, years ago. Kaji, or Master Aso, as he preferred to be called, was from Japan. And he knew that: in…

Who doesn’t LOVE summer? As a child, summer meant days outside: from the cool morning light to saturated sun overhead into the purple light of evening. Summer meant long days playing – what? Horses, of course. If I wasn’t riding…

Do you remember when you heard that? “That’s coo-o-o-ol.” What is the expression these days? Right now, “that’s cool” sounds like exactly what I want to hear. No more heat wave, heat dome,. Enough hot. I grew up in Virginia…

You fell. You have an illness. Or both. Last fall, I managed to fall off a wall and break my femur head (= total hip replacement). At the time I had relatively recently been diagnosed with Lyme disease, which took years…

Or is it me moving? How do you feel when you’re up in the air, flying? Excited? Apprehensive? Not so sure?It’s always a little scary for me, even though I’ve flown many times.I don’t know:Will the plane be on time?…