inspiration

My mom is retired and spends her days working in her garden. My dad is a photographer and has been documenting her progress. I’m jealous of her abundance of tomatoes, which is going into gazpacho and tomato candy this week. I wish I were in LA to sample all her cooking – and also to […]

My dad grew up in a poor, single-mother family in LA during the Fifties. Every Sunday, the family would walk to church, along roads that were bordered by empty lots (this is before LA became the overdeveloped city it is today) where collard greens often grew wild. My dad and his siblings would leave the

You would think that Humpday wouldn’t matter to a person who doesn’t have a “regular” job. But it does – at least to me. Thursday is my first studio day of the week, which means I spend Monday through Thursday afternoon ramping up. I’d been so full of inspiration the last couple of weeks but

Lego Jeep at the Maker Faire I went to the Maker Faire this weekend and was dazzled by all the creativity. People – adults – had spent hours playing and creating, and had come up with amazing contraptions that they just needed to share with the world. I got to play all day; I felt
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