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You haven’t heard from me in a while, I know. I should write some kind of treatise about work-life balance, about making time for creative...

Thanks to the kindness of some old and very dear friends of Sweet Dub's, we spent most of last week at a beautiful resort near Palm Spri...

I have been sitting with the verdict of the George Zimmerman trial all week. I have been sitting with it, creepy mournful ghastly thing, hu...

I am in a bad place, for a variety of reasons, and I have cut back again on blogging even though I want to do it. I seem unable to come up w...

Blurry photo courtesy of my iPhone. Local mural in Culver City, CA. And then there are the times when it feels like this modern life ha...

I am lying on the couch in my mother's house. Everyone else is still asleep. I have been up since about 4 AM. Sweet Dub is out of town f...

Photo:  Eye Test, by John LeMasney , Creative Commons My darling husband is in a bit of a funk. This is hard for me, because he is gene...

I wish this picture were me. But it is! But it isn’t. I am not four years old and squishing in the mud at preschool, glopping clunky...

Photo:   Creation of an Abstract Mural, Glass, by LaurMG, Creative Commons I just wrote four paragraphs about creating art, an...

Photo:   3 pigs craft and flannel board story - Creative Commons, by Mommachels-Flickr I have only touched briefly on the school...

Photo: Creative Commons, by allison.hare – Flickr April…April is a helluva month.   We kick off April on the very first day with ...

In my Internet travels today, I came across this article , in which the author describes how she read her 5-year-old daughter’s diary....

"...I've found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay... small acts of kindness, and love....

What I would prefer to do. Has someone ever said this to you?   “I don’t like confrontation, so…” Does anyone really LIKE confro...

Is this thing on? I have so many things to talk about. Let’s start with just one, because it’s so ridiculously entertaining:   have you h...

Today is the ninth anniversary of my grandfather’s death. Reggie was my mother’s father, but he was more than a grandfather to me. I a...

Photo from blackradionetwork.com. Last week, just before the admittedly hectic Easter/birthday weekend, I read an article which t...