Even though I won awards for teaching Art, I know what it’s like to struggle with finding time to create art, because years ago, that struggle consumed my life. I know what it’s like to wake up and feel lost and filled with grief. And to lay down at night thinking about how in five years, I lost my ...

Tomorrow is Black Friday! It seems though the sales have started already. I imagine it is easier on the merchants to spread it across a few days rather than it all being on one day. Either way, the question has to do with Black Friday...do you participate? I have to admit I have bought some things f...

Real Gold Leaf starts out as a 5mm gold nugget that is then flattened into a sheet by hammering it down. Imitation Gold Leaf is much cheaper and the metal leaf can come in a variety of colours (silver, copper with blue, green and etc.). It can go on almost anything (statues, clay or metal pots, pain...

Last Saturday, at 11:20 am, I got my first 'antiCOVID shot.' To be honest, I did have some concerns about getting the shot; with the main concern being they don't really know the long term effects or side effects of the drug. But then, one needed to take an educated decision, and based on my lung hi...

(posted on former website 2.13.2016)

I see hearts in objects around me. I’ll be walking around my classroom, or strolling downtown, and I’ll see a heart shaped object in a blob of paint or mound of snow. I can’t remember the first time I became aware of these heart shaped visions, but they have con...