Making Choices
I don’t eat crab unless someone else does the hard work of extracting the meat from the shell. But I love unpacking pomegranates. Maybe it’s the bright red color or…
Lucky Town
I love tools and I love building things. So when I found this vintage Stanley tool box at an antique store closing sale, I snapped it right up. My first…
Nineteen Hats, Ten Teacups…
Such an emotional catharsis this week…sobbing one moment, stomping angrily the next. And strangely, no connection to what might be the cause, current or past. Sure, there were maddening moments…
Travelling at the speed of…bicycle
The muffler on my car stopped muffling. In fact, it fell off completely, making the most horrendous noise as I left it behind. Back when I wrote about simple living…
Redemption
I couldn’t find it again…the one line on which the novel pirouetted. The turn was near the end and once I read it, I began to float through the final…
The Business of Art
According to Feng Shui, the Wealth area is in the far left corner from the entrance. I considered this when I decided to move my art table in the studio.…
The Messy Process of Art
“This is not going to work.” That’s what I said to myself in the middle of my latest bookbinding project. It was a commissioned piece… a wedding guest book for…
The Necessity of Having Lots of Stuff
The customs agent looked at my list and eyed me suspiciously. “Brass hardware??” “Yes”, I said, and happily held up my small plastic bag of delicious patina. Clearly he did…
Stella Sunday Afternoons 