Autumn + Fog = Endless Inspiration! Welcome to my final post on my multi-week visit to Faversham last winter. In my previous posts I've ...

  Faversham! Grey skies and all. Hello, Everyone! The last time I posted it was about my art retreat journey to France and the artwork I d...

Albuquerque Morning ; watercolor crayons and indigo ink It's Sunday morning and I'm doing my best to recreate an earlier life: walk...

© Creative Commons Zero / Dreamstime.com   Happy 2025! Happy-to-be-back-blogging-again! Happy just to be here at all!  2024 wasn't exact...

Hello! Happy Spring! The last two months have found me on a blogging hiatus and for a very good reason: I was busy revamping my website, Val...

  So here we are again: November and National Novel Writing Month and the eternal question: Why am I doing this?? Because I love it, I suppo...

Lakeside, CampNaNoWriMo 2023     Back home from CampNaNoWriMo at last! Well, okay, so I never went farther than the Albuquerque Museum Cafe ...

Two days to go and here I am, preparing for yet another July and another Camp NaNoWriMo! 50,000 words in 31 days; a totally off-the-cuff dec...

I love to write; I love to paint, usually on the same day and often at the same time. Ink and watercolor, stories and images, my mind swirls...