I’m sitting here in my red room, working amid the clutter of Pokemon cards and the sound of Pokemon streaming over the Internet. So, it’s not the ideal writing space, but I think of Stephen King and how he wrote in his book On Writing: A Memoir of Craft of writing with his son playing [...]
Posts Tagged ‘art’
An evening in the red room
Posted in family, life, photography, poetry, writing, tagged art, fiction, photography, poetry, writing, writing rooms on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fun with Photoshop
Posted in art, family, life, photography, tagged art, camping, kids, life, photography on July 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
These are my little peeps. I’ve been having fun with Photoshop lately, giving myself a brief respite from writing. Actually, there really has been no respite from writing. I did a good chunk of work on my novel this morning and plan on doing more. I just wanted to do something else creative. I think [...]
Oh Father
Posted in art, family, life, writing, tagged art, family, Father's Day, fathers, fiction, life, writing on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Father’s Day, and I’ve taken a brief pause from my novel revision to reflect on fathers. Ironically, I’m working on a chapter in my book where my protagonist is hanging out with her dad. My book, on some level, deals with the father-daughter relationship since my protagonist, Rosa, only has one sibling–a sister named [...]
Magico Finestra
Posted in art, life, poetry, writing, tagged art, MFA Creative Writing, poetry, sculpture, writing on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a poem I wrote rather quickly that was inspired by the sculpture in Tecumseh called Magico Finestra. I judged a contest in Tecumseh of poems that were inspired by any of the sculptures currently up around Tecumseh. The sculptures are changing soon, but I was captivated by the way the window looked to [...]
Some thoughts, some announcements and a lazy Sunday morning
Posted in breast cancer, family, life, poetry, writing, tagged art, breast cancer, kids, life, newspaper, poetry, radio, writing on July 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I hesitated to move to get my computer because my cat, Betty, was so comfortably curled up on my lap as I sat in the recliner, Jay’s recliner, watching my favorite television show, Sunday Morning on CBS. I tried calling my mother, who is probably sleeping, to tell her to watch it because artist Jim [...]
Reading and creative kids
Posted in art, family, life, tagged art, family, life, reading, writing on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Next Tuesday, March 18, I will be featured reader at Sweetwater’s Cafe in Ann Arbor. I’m a bit nervous about this but excited all the same. It will be my first feature, not that I have a book to go with it, but maybe I’ll find a way to have something to hand out at [...]
My Inspiration
Posted in art, tagged art, creativity, family, life, mothers on February 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Often when talking creativity I mention my mom as an inspiration. I tell people she’s been creating things my whole life. I always get the the following: “You must get your talent from your mom.” I’d be rich if I was paid for the number of times I’ve heard that. Most of the time I just [...]
Short, sweet and to the point
Posted in art, beadweaving, life, poetry, tagged art, beadweaving, etsy, poetry, rejection on January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have two bead pieces listed in this month’s Etsy Beadweavers challenge. There is a crazy abundance of talent on the Etsy Beadweavers Street Team. Our theme was red. Each piece had to have some red. Just click on the the Etsy Beadweavers link to the right and you’ll find the blog and see the [...]
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 »
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. [...]
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 [...]
