Approaching June 2024

Approaching June 2024

Approaching June For many years I dreaded June because it was a grief-trigger. Both my husband and father both passed away in June one year apart in 2001 and 2002. But It also holds my wedding anniversary and the birth of my youngest son as well Father’s Day—and...
May 2024: The Art of Tarot

May 2024: The Art of Tarot

 May 2024: The Art of Tarot Thanks to all of you who told me about Electra Gallery’s call for art, Seven of Flowering Hearts will be part of The Art of Tarot exhibit opening this Friday, May 3rd. I’ll also be taking up a couple of the House of Cards decks...
March 2024: March Madness

March 2024: March Madness

 March Madness 2024 I’m sitting in a hotel in Wichita, halfway back from visiting the Twin Cities in Minnesota, contemplating why March is associated with madness. Even before basketball and Alice in Wonderland, people described as mad as a March hare. March is...
February 2024: Love and Dragons

February 2024: Love and Dragons

February 2024: Love and Dragons It’s hard to believe that we are already five days into February. Where I grew up by the Great Lakes, February is a dreary month. Here in Albuquerque, there’s just the slightest promise spring with more days in the 50s than...
New Year 2024

New Year 2024

2024: A New Year! It’s a new year and we are all hoping it ends more peacefully than it is beginning. Making art is a constant exercise in optimism. We don’t need art like we need food, shelter, and clothing, but we do use it for at least three...