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It’s a major challenge for nearly half of my Eastern Repousse students – how to translate the technique into beautiful flowers and leaves. Invariably, every time I have ever taught Eastern Repousse over the past 3 decades, some students design lovely flowers to “puff out.” And every time they get to the stage of chasing…
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…
For all my writing about loving long days and how I would fight to the death to keep Daylight Savings Time legal, I have a confession to make: I seriously love the Winter Solstice. Perhaps it’s that I love (and maybe run at) extremes, and the celebration of an extra long night of stars (if…
I’d love to tell you that I start every morning with with a cup of a tea and a sketchbook. Well, I do…sort of. The calming ritual of tea, pen, and paper is the first thing I do in the studio each morning, but, if I’m honest, I check my calendar and my email before…
There’s an old Carpenters’ song I often sang along to when I was a child. The chorus went, “Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.” It’s been stuck in my head since last week’s impossibly warm days quickly flipped to gloomy, wet, and cold. While my dogs think shaking off the water droplets is…
I write to you today from the blissful calm of my new Zero Gravity Chair and nestled into my new, neck hugging heating pad here on the back deck. The birds have been chirping mere feet from me and occasionally a Disney rat (chipmunk) pops up over the deck’s edge to stare at me. Here…