The above is my latest bead creation that I call Red Whimsy.
I should be stringing words. Instead, I’m stringing beads, hundreds of teeny tiny seed beads. People always say they don’t understand how I can have the patience to work with seed beads, but for me it is meditation. I’m not good at sitting still. [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Thoughts for the New Year
Posted in art, family, life, writing, tagged art, beads, beadweaving, creativity, family, life, mfa, needlwork, writing on December 31, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Winter has arrived in the Midwest
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged family, life, nonfiction, photography, snow, winter, writing on December 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s the winter blast as it looks outside the window near my writing desk.
I felt the snowflakes falling on my face for the first time in a long time. It’s not that I’ve been away from snowy climes. It’s just that I’ve made myself too busy to stop and play in it like I used [...]
Writers Reading at Sweetwaters book release celebration
Posted in family, life, poetry, tagged art, book, creative writing, family, life, mfa, poetry, publishing, reading, writer, writing on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll be reading Tuesday, Dec. 18, at Sweetwaters Cafe in Ann Arbor as part of the Writers Reading at Sweetwaters Anthology release celebration. I was invited to be a part of this wonderful project by one of the editors and Writers Reading at Sweetwaters reading series leaders Chris Lord. I had the pleasure of meeting [...]
Writing through the holidays and beadweaving
Posted in art, life, writing, tagged art, art & craft, beadweaving, craft, etsy, handmade, mfa, needlework, writing on December 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of the great things about the MFA program that I’m is that it promotes interrelatedness of the arts. That means that there is an understanding that while we are writers we are creative in other ways. That doesn’t mean that we do anything differently for our MFA. It just means that that awareness is [...]
