Let's see if I remember how to do this......

I'm back.

I think.

I"ll try.

Let's see....

It has been seven years since I was last here. 

Thirteen years since my first post.

My kids are seventeen now and thinking about college,  

I'm overwhelmed at it all and at starting this again, but I loved it here, 

I met so many great people and wonderful artists and love that I can look back through my journey as a 

mother, an artist and a teacher.  

I love how much I am the same and how much I have changed. 

 I appreciate that this blog was the beginning of me taking myself seriously as an artist after graduating, 

becoming a teacher and a mother.  

And if you are here reading this, I so appreciate you taking the time.

wednesday

Changing.

 Disappearing. 

Slipping. 

Closing.

 Opening

Friday

I started this blog 6 or 7 years ago to get the courage to apply to graduate school. Now all these years later I am divorced, parent less and need courage sgain, but I am not sure what for. My life has been a surprise. Much different than I might have thought when I was staring into the eyes of frogs and searching for cicadas. I thought being an adult would be less lonely than being a child.  But it is a lonely venture albeit a wonderful one that is filled with beautiful skies, a bright moon, and wonderous creatures.  

tuesday

It has been so long. I am on Instagram now and it is too easy, but I miss this. 

An exceptionally talented friend of mine wrote a beautiful post about identity.  

She is a writer, an artist, an exceptional mother, and one of those friends that you can count on more than family, one that you are certain you were meant to know.

friday

monday

John Watson Sings "Sherlock"

I came across this and had to share.  This is so well done. Good animation always leaves me thinking "how, just how?

sunday

 

When I was a kid my mother made dolls, so there were empty eyed white bisque heads and arms and legs all over the basement in her studio.  Looking back,I think she was both reliving her childhood and motherhood.  Making  pretty dolls that would wear nice dresses and not talk back. I was thinking of this because often I erase my faces to clean white, my faces that are rarely pretty and always seem to talk back.

sunday

Excited to be included in the thirteenth issue of Fukt Magazine and so excited to know about it! A  German magazine that is beautifully put together by artists and completely focused on contemporary drawing.  Look it up, I think you'll enjoy it too.

Monday

It has been awhile. I'm back at work,teaching and hoping to make posting part of my routine again.  I am excited to be,even if for a second, included in the new IPhone 6 film.  If you want to see it is at 1:42. 

Friday