Save when you get or give my multi-award winning art book Giving Voice and feel good about helping those in need. The ability to make a difference for babies’ and children’s health is one of the reasons I turned my best creative work ever into a book that others could read. I donate 10% of every copy sold to The MARCH…
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Snoopy Happy Dance – Feel the Frill Exhibit & Sale
It’s that time of year when we observe the sacred tradition of watching the A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Truthfully, I hide out on Thanksgiving. At the risk of sounding like a real downer, I confess it’s not my favorite holiday. As a kid, it was like a dress rehearsal for Christmas so my maternal and paternal grandparents could be well…
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Our Cakes and Eating Them Too
Bizarrely, my son Skyler, my husband Chris, and Skyler’s best friend Nigel were all born on November ninth, with Skyler and Nigel a mere 10 hours apart in age. Normally, we would all celebrate together, with me frantically cooking and baking in the leaner years, and all of us blowing it out at our favorite celebrity chef steakhouse in the…
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“And Now for Something Completely Different”…Sort Of
What started out as scary but possibly short has turned into what I half jokingly call living in captivity. Seven months later, I now call it living under house arrest. It got me thinking about Galileo… The funny thing is that if I woke up tomorrow in a pandemic free world, by some unlikely miracle, I probably wouldn’t grab the…
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Living in captivity with one constitutional lawyer and one aspiring politician means political talk in our house is inescapable. About the best I can do is remind the people I live with “not in my studio, please!” This was true even when we lived in a real democracy. Now that we’ve been living in a full blown oligarchy for almost…
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