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“What TV shows did you grow up with, and how did they impact your view of the world?” asked the coach in a course I recently took. As the Zoom chat filled with so many women listing Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie, I felt a fond nostalgia for the improbable antics, mishaps, and adventures of the…
When six year old me opened my new box of crayons, I reverently pulled out the one called ‘blue-green’ in awe. I found it to be the perfect color. As I reverently replaced it in its slot, I sighed at the rest of the colors and wondered what they were doing in the box. What…
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…