A piece of me was in Israel even before I got here—a cookie jar I made after I survived cancer that survived Mary’s move here 7 years ago. A few days before I came to visit, Mary asked if I would show her how to do mosaics—by the time I arrived this evolved into a […]
I've got a secret, too
Turns out she’s hiding even more than we thought, now that an Italian researcher has uncovered the letters and numbers hidden in her eyes. Some dismiss this discovery as far-fetched—but I take it seriously—and personally. Because I hold the key to a similar mystery. Mine doesn’t go back centuries, just decades……to my college graduation when […]
The Appli-cation of Inspiration
It’s right outside our bedroom window but for the first two years we lived in our house I had no idea it was there. Like Isaac Newton, I practically had to be hit on the head to discover there were apples in one of our trees. Not just apples; hundreds of them, many already dropping […]
Anna Nicole Smith and the Breasts that Shook the World
Everything I read about her reminds me of the day I met her….very memorably in the middle of nowhere. And though you wouldn’t think someone like me would have anything in common with her—we actually did. There’s my son, first of all. That’s him, a moment a teenage boy could never forget. We were in […]
Forbes? There must be some mistake
My website isn’t ready, I’m still a few days weeks from officially launching my business. I did an interview awhile back and forgot about it until just now. Yet there it is, titled Burn Your Resume, Be an Artist— just published on Forbes.com. Classic. Especially for me. People who know me are probably rolling their eyes at the concept […]
Broken up
In my last post I wrote about my 16th anniversary with my husband. And already I’m broken up over someone else—who I met behind V’s back. It started a few months ago. He didn’t have to say a word. The minute I saw him, I fell for him…..hard. He was hard, too. And kind of […]
