April 16th, 2015
Are you busy trying to plan your summer travels? Why not Santa Fe, NM in late June? There will be a fabulous opportunity to visit 68 artists in their studios. They’ll be sharing their creative processes and their finished work. I’m very pleased to be participating in Santa Fe Studio Tour 2015! This year there […]
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February 1st, 2015
Sports players are renowned for their rituals. Baseball players who never wash their hats? Octopus carcasses thrown onto the ice at hockey games? (major yuck & sad!) Nascar drivers who shy away from peanuts in the shell? People are strange. Creative and highly accomplished folk of all sorts have rituals too. Winston Churchill woke at […]
Tags: Hopi, Ritual, Southwestern US
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December 25th, 2014
The holidays were just around the corner. Yikes! What to do for my far flung family and nieces and nephews? I turned to the petroglyph elves. Problem solved! I decided I’d have some fun with little notebooks this year. I started with sturdy little pocket sized notebooks. These aren’t moleskine but they are well made. […]
Tags: Anaszai, Moleskine, moleskines, stencils
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February 9th, 2014
Mindfulness is a trendy term right now… But for the best of reasons. Just thinking of mindfulness I find myself taking a deep breath. Slowing down. Noticing details. Feeling more calm, more focused. It was even on the cover of Time Magazine this week. I believe in it most thoroughly, though I may not always […]
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