In our new podcast episode with author Melissa Bond (linked below), the word “indulgence” was touched upon just before our time ran out. This morning as I was thinking about the upcoming month of February, I wove my way back to this word. I thought of it as being a month of indulgences… chocolate, love, pink & red hearts, jewelry, passion, dining, candy hearts with terms of endearment, frosted sugar cookies… and I thought about how for many, to take the time to give space to

Welcome 2022. I approach you cautiously. I enter with my hopes and wishes. Yet I enter with my eyes wide open. I know that the reality is that no matter how much we plan and set goals or intentions, the world will have its way with us. All things can suddenly be jumbled up, turned upside down, like a shaken snowglobe. Our direction and plans can change in a snap. This has been my lesson of this pandemic and my take away from 2021. It was a year shadowed by loss and heaviness

Maybe it's been the pandemic, or maybe it's just the passing of time, but after over 25 years of teaching art, creating art, being passionate about art, it was beginning to feel repetitive. I was hearing myself saying the same thing over and over again and, in my mind, I believed that everyone else had heard it over and over again too. In a recent conversation with a group, it dawned on me that for the majority of people, sitting down to paint is not an "every day thing" and