Smack-dab in the heart of New York City’s Times Square thousands of knitters and fiber enthusiasts converged for this year’s Vogue Knitting Live 3-day event. There were free lectures, like this one with Debbie Bliss, who described how to create flattering knitwear for all body shapes. To be honest, since my bust inflated from menopause’s…
Category: Travel
New Photography Notebook Available
I’ve been playing in the photo archives and now there’s a new notebook in my shop over on blurb! “The Write of Passage” is a lined-page notebook, embellished with path, entryway, and window photographs, all of which were taken in New England and New York state. Click here to preview.
Time Travel
Yesterday morning I experienced a boomerang memory spin like a scene from “Back to the Future.” One of my favorite daily reads is Poppytalk, a “Canadian design blog collecting inspiration and dedicated to promoting emerging design talent.” The posts are loaded with delicious photography. A recent guest post about a cool place in London called…
A Day of Beauty, or Saturdays are for Road Trips, part 1
What better way to celebrate the arrival of an out-of-town friend than to organize an all-day art tour? That’s what my friend Cynthia did, and Trudie and I were fortunate to be invited along. The day was full of many wow!s, beginning with a tour of C’s house and gardens, and an al fresco breakfast served…
Birthday Bubbles
Chasing memories with birthday bubbles for G at DeCordova Museum.
Waste Land, a movie that has changed lives
This film represents a convergence of so many facets of my life that I hardly know which aspect bears the most weight, or would be most fitting here. Perhaps I should begin at the beginning … In January 2001 I spent a month in Alpercata, a small farming community in mid-eastern Brazil. When I arrived,…
Time Travel, a photo tour – part 1
The second half of the summer residency (SNHU-MFA) was held at the Oceanic Hotel on Star Island, in the Isles of Shoals, off the coast of Rye, NH. My first thought as I stepped off the Thomas Laighton ferry was, “This is just like the setting for a Bobbsey Twins novel!” Peeking around the corner towards Vaughan…
Leaving Paradise
I loved it there. Loved. It: temperate climate. Exotic architecture. No spoken English. I don’t speak Arabic and only the most pitiable self-taught survival French, but that didn’t matter. It all began one Sunday afternoon while walking through Harvard Square. A pair of pointy-toed boots was keeping pace with me, whether I sped up or…
Artist Date! Time for something completely different
I promised myself and my dear friend G_ that as soon as I was finished with school, I would make the trek out to Buffalo for a long overdue visit. G and I met on the job twelve years ago. Although we only worked together for less than a year. we’ve stayed in touch and current with…
Eat Your View – Sunday Road Trip
There’s something about fresh, fresh produce that infuses my world view with hope and a life-is-good attitude. It seems important to put my pocketbook where my soap box sits, so I’m making a point to search out and support the retail businesses of local farmers. Jones Farm is down the road a piece, in Chelmsford,…