Creative Life

Jan 13, 20232 min read

Art is More than Art

I just received a wonderful email from a customer who came through my booth several months ago at Portland Saturday Market He sent me a...

Jan 11, 20235 min read

Thriving Despite It All

"I had to make reckless decisions to tear down the life I was living in order to create the new life I wanted instead," I said to some...

Jun 5, 20213 min read

Be the Rain : the story of a painting

I found a big wood cradle board of artwork measuring three by three feet in one of those donation type stores where you go hounding for...

May 27, 20212 min read

KITCHEN TABLE ART SCHOOL

Many full-time artists felt the call to art from a young age and made the trek through art school. Then, there is the rest of us. I did...

May 8, 20212 min read

Am I Really an Artist?

"I am not really an artist," I said to a friend recently. "I am an art seller... I make art. I sell art... " Of course I am playing with...

Apr 27, 20215 min read

Failing Forward

It was dawn. I could just see a trace of sunrise sneaking in under the window blind. Had I really stayed up all night? I had been...

Mar 8, 20214 min read

Body Love and Art

Little assholes, I muttered to myself as I stomped to my car as best I could lugging a vacuum cleaner and my cleaning bucket. I had...

Jan 14, 20212 min read

Living a Creative Centered Life

I converted my detached garage and moved in Thanksgiving Week 2019. My main house is filled with young renters including my daughter and...