A summer cold is making its way through this house. Nasty little bug making everyone miserable and cranky. Especially bad when it's so...

It's 10pm, very nearly, and 102 degrees outside. Earlier today, it was 115. There was nothing to be done about it but to float and thin...

I could rant for days. But I won't. I do in my head, quite often. We all do, don't we? In traffic, at the television, at the news, a...

Don't say I didn't warn you. Today the mercury climbed to 117 outside my back door. But I opened a little Halloween section in the ...

Got a bit of photography done today. It was 115 by our thermometer, didn't even bother to look up the official. It was hellishly hot ou...

I started the day out well, with a swim, then some reading. I'm re-reading Stephen King's Secret Windows , which is more or less a b...

Many years ago I read a classic science fiction story. I remember reading the story---I read it as I sat on the bank of a pond while my dad...

Little unexpected things, as thinking how much I need a new journal for sketches and finding one in the mailbox only moments after. It was...

We are always in motion. Something like 67,000 miles per hour. We forget. Silly humans! I was going to write here tonight, really. I have n...

Our fourth of July celebration turned out to be exceedingly quiet. Orion went to a fireworks show with Aubrey and her boyfriend, Matthew. Sp...

ok . So now it's Friday. Thank you to the readers who contributed to yesterday's post. I've considered your comments. At its bes...

Well now it's Thursday morning. Another day in what I've come to see as the 'worst year in my life'. How dramatic. We ...

*This morning I put my apron back on. I'm taking that as a sign of repair. It's supposed to be 110 today. In protest, we've rele...

I'm still feeling fragile. Too fragile. There was the slow burnout, then the smashing upon the floor, then losing Gurtie. Sent me into a...

A few shots from Zoya's recital on Saturday. ( Zoya in center, ears flying.) A new steam punk poppet car, collaboration with Bent....

This morning I walked by the bench that was Gurtie's favorite spot for napping. Her impression is still there. I'm not going to h...

Pelicans. I watched them and gathered up inspiration for new work. That was good. June Gloom has arrived on the coast, and summer here ...

There is new work up on Etsy and on Ebay. There are new works in progress on every table in the studio. There are meetings scheduled an...

A glimpse of how we spent our evening. These last weeks leading up to the event have been interesting indeed. I thought about what I migh...