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10-18/100 Day Drawing Challenge

Day 10 of this challenge, I just picked up this pinecone that sits amongst my collection of stones in a round basket on my coffee table. Then I drew for an hour or so. Yes, there are days I think … Continue reading

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100 Drawings in 100 Days Challenge

Yes, I’ve challenged myself to not only writing in this blog once a week, but also to do one drawing every day for one hundred days in a row. I think I’m out of my fricking mind, oh well, we … Continue reading

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Reading, Reading, Reading

I’m currently reading four different books, two on my iPad and two paperbacks. I started Ibram X. Kendi’s How To Be An Antiracist on my iPad last summer after reading Stamped: Racism, Antiracism & You by Jason Reynolds & Kendi. … Continue reading

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2021 Hopefully Better

Day 309 of the COVID-19 Pandemic January 18, 2021 Uncertainty hangs in the air. I’m not teaching this semester and it feels like I’m forgetting to do something. I am a writing consultant for the University Writing Center but that … Continue reading

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2020 Pandemic Table or the Pam-demic Table

From journal entry May 30, 2020 – Day 78 of “Stay Home Stay Safe” As I was sanding my new deck coffee table it accorded to me that designing, creating/building, and finishing this project was similar to the writing process … Continue reading

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2020, Another Trip Around the Sun Begins

This is the first time in ten years I will not be teaching a class at EMU. I have a consulting position in the University Writing Center and I’m a volunteer writing consultant for YpsiWrites at the Whittaker library. I … Continue reading

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Summer 2019 is Almost Over

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Finally got logged into my blog! If I didn’t already have so much written here I would start a new one! It has been a busy, productive summer. My gardens all flourish and the tomatoes are starting to ripen. I’ve … Continue reading

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I’ve Come Full Circle

In 1972 I was an art student taking drawing classes in Sherzer Hall at Eastern Michigan University, last week I returned to Sherzer Hall for a drawing class at the age of 72. It took me seventeen years to get … Continue reading

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2018 in Review

I haven’t written in my blog since this past July, between the garden, the yard, the house, and then teaching three classes and consulting for the Writing Center at EMU there wasn’t any time left for my blog. It took … Continue reading

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July 4th, 2018

My Potager! I’ve harvested lettuce, snow peas, green beans and Hungarian peppers. Tomatoes will be soon. I’m sitting on the deck, the robins and other birds singing to me. It’s supposed to be another 88+ degree day. Grateful for the … Continue reading

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