As some of you may know, I’m in the midst of helping out on a renovation of a total crapshoot of a house, a circa-1920s oddity that may have been literally rolled down a mountain from an old mining town. The place is filled with weird doors and crazy floorboards — rooms seem to have [...]

Last year (and the year before) I was so much better about getting Christmas things done long before Christmas. This year, I waited until just about the last minute to begin work on my handmade cards. These days I tend to blame things on the dog (suddenly “The dog ate my homework” has a bit [...]

For the first time in about six years (since college!), I have my own dedicated artmaking/studio space. This sort of thing is part of the reason we left New York for the wild, wide-open west — after all, what’s the good of being in an arts-inspired place like New York if you aren’t making any [...]

My hands after pulling the dead vegetables from the garden.
I’d always wanted elegant, soft, lady-like hands, whatever that means. I’d wanted hands like my childhood friend Donna — she had long, tapering fingers and oblong, thin nails. Soft, soft skin. Instead, genetics dealt me these stubby fingers, and dry, crackled skin, while an childhood obsessive [...]

Well, I’ve gone and done it. I’ve set up shop at Etsy, selling my mixed media prints. I’m simultaneously thrilled and scared witless.