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Simon the barred owl, perched over my fish pond Yes, “It’s Owl-right now… A twist on how Mick sings the line, and instead of the next line being “I’m Jumping Jack flash, it’s a gas, gas, gas,” it’s more like a “ flap of massive wings and a hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoooorrrrrrr!” Not only are things calming down…
I’m often asked which is my favorite technique… And what I always answer is “whichever one I’m working in at the time,” because I love them all! After months of hammering my heart out via the technique of Eastern Repoussé, I’ve been up to my eyeballs in tiny orbs…granules that is, as I’m finishing up…
We all have one. In fact, it means quite well. That pesky inner critic? Yes, it’s there to keep us safe. Now that might seem about as helpful as my Sheltie Lizzie throwing me off balance by barking loudly and hurling her furry body at me to stay inside the backyard gate when I’m carrying…
The time has come for that yearly event that must be experienced to be believed, that great yellowing of earth…and trees, and cars, and decks, and dogs, and, yes, definitely air. Spring is here and with it comes what I have termed The Other Yellow Snow. And it has only just begun. In preparation for homemade…
“At one point I had wires looped three times through your heart,” said interventional cardiologist Dr. Pratik Sandesara, to my husband the next day. I have secretly dubbed this man ‘Ariadne,’ the archetypal weaver from Greek mythology. The maze is the cardiovascular system. The Minotaur was the complete block in the artery. Theseus is the the…
Two weeks in a row I spent Atlanta’s tornado watches in the cardiac care waiting room at Emory Midtown Hospital. There’s nothing quite so destabilizing as waiting for test results, while watching the sky turn dark and the fog get so bad I couldn’t see the building across the street, and wondering if my house…
I’d love to tell you that I spent my holiday time off recharging and rejuvenating, but the truth is that I nearly experienced death by lilies. I had no idea how toxic their pollen can be until day 5 of the presence of a beautiful flower arrangement we had on our dining room table, when…