Seeds From a Birch Tree. Gouache on black paper. Inspired by the haiku how-to book of the same name by Clark Strand. April is once again Poe...

Happy Spring, everyone! Taxes, allergies, never knowing if the weather is hot or cold or simply freezing . . . Yes, it's a wonderful tim...

  Small Fish in a Big World.    Ink and gold watercolor, 9" x 12".   Until this morning, I had forgotten that April was National P...

"Tide Pool." Mixed-media piece from a long ago class . . . Until a few weeks ago, I always thought #C ampNaNoWriMo was in J...

Here we are: 2017 and ready to write, draw, paint, bead, dive into the mud and best of all: stay creative every day . It's become som...

From my weekend sketchbook: Pentel Stylo pen, Sumi ink, and watercolor. I've been studying Chinese painting techniques, especially t...

I never thought I would miss blogging every day, but already I'm feeling nostalgic for that early morning ritual of stumbling to my ...

Happy "W is for Weekend"! Hope you're having a good one. It's dark and cloudy in Albuquerque this afternoon, just the r...

When I first moved to Albuquerque nearly eleven years ago, one of the first things I did was join a narrative poetry writing group. I saw...

Before I signed up for the April A-Z Blogging Challenge, April was always associated in my mind with National Poetry Month. It still is, ...