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• Five Bullet Points

  

  Dear Sen./Rep.________,I would like to know five actions you have taken in the past week to protect your constituents --veterans, educators, healthcare... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Tearing My Hair and Whining

  

  Arrgh!The tech woes continue. My laptop wasn't charging and the power cord didn't work. I got a new cord and it worked...for a few days and then it didn't. Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Morning and Evening

  

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  Posted on 08 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Book for Calder

  

  .My talented friend Louise came over to paint and showed me this charming series picturing her dogs Stokely and Pippi on a rabbit hunt. The book that it will... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Sunseeker

  

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  Posted on 06 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Soul Work

  

  As, one after another, I crank out my amateurish watercolors, I contemplate the joy of doing a thing for its own sake with no thought of 'monetizing' the work. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie's Rainforest Diorama

  

  Josie made the boa and the toucan and painted the scene. The artist's statement is Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Chasing Bubbles

  

  O I was attempting a picture of Josie from a photo and was reasonably pleased with how the face was coming. I left it unfinished to work on the bubbles and... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Shameful!

  

  I am incandescent with rage at the shameful treatment accorded Zelensky during the made for tv tag team/grudge match orchestrated by the White House. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Rabbit Rabbit

  

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  Posted on 01 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• My Window Garden

  

  Breakfast: six-grain toast with mango/jalapeno hummus and a white nectarine.And what is probably the last bloom of the amaryllis Claui's folks gave us which... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

  

  Ethan, my older son suggested this for me. It's a kind of dark comedy with a reliable narrator who constantly breaks the fourth wall to address his readers and... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• I Must Be Woke

  

  I've written before about Singing Wheels--the iconic textbook from my fourth-grade years. It's a kind of Eric Sloane for kids-- a reader-friendly look at life o... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Promise

  

  The first crocuses seem to me a promise--Spring is coming. Though there may be snowstorms and nasty weather yet, daffodils and tulips are on their way, along... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Today's Text

  

  As the president and Elon Musk continue to hollow out our government, including the DOD, Putin must be congratulating himself on installing this useful idiot... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie the Disciplinarian

  

  I found this list of rules (or as Josie spells it rools) taped to the bannisters at the top of the stairs. I was puzzled at first then remembered that Josie... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Icicles

  

  After snow all day Thursday and the temperature in the teens that night, we were happy to awake to sunshine and a melt in progress--and we still had power and... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• We Are Not Okay

  

  Today I am embarrassed to be an American. Our president appears to be in thrall to Russia's Putin. In the Bizarro World of the FOTUS, Ukraine started the war an... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• And Snow

  

  Paltry by Canadian standards but enough to call off school. The mountain roads the school busses travel are too dangerous when icy to risk.My call/email today i... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Wild Times at the Palma Ceia

  

  The Palma Ceia Theater in South Tampa led something of a double life. Showing artsy and foreign films on weeknights, on Saturday mornings she let her hair down... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY