Kids, Homework, and the Biography Fair

Omigosh, you guys, KIDS. I just got back from my 3rd grader’s biography fair. It was the CUTEST THING EVAR. The kids were all dressed up as their chosen biography subject, standing on their desks like wax sculptures. You pushed a ‘button’ on their...

State of the Bird: Starting the Year Edition

Trying to keep my new resolution to update more regularly, and… already January has passed me by! So I’ll start now instead. 🙂 This is going to be a year of transition on many fronts. My husband is going back to college full-time to finish his degree —...

2014: Year In Review

This has really been a year of ups and downs. I called 2013 transformative, and it was. 2014 was… illuminating. In the spring, I had 7 paintings in a group show at Art Access Gallery called “Strong Women”; in May, I had two pieces accepted in the...

NaNoWriMo, half-way

So on Saturday I made it past 25,000 words on my NaNoWriMo effort, which is right on target — and my Songseeker story is above 33,000 words total, which is better progress than I’ve made on any story, ever. For my characters, things are about to get Very...

State of the Bird: Long Convalescence and Your Art

You just can’t avoid getting sick. It happens. But what happens to the art when you get sick? I came down with my pulmonary embolism in mid-July, just as I was waiting to hear from one gallery about whether or not they’d represent me, and waiting to hear...