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...

Even if you only have 60 seconds for a gesture drawing, take them! Happy 2024, everyone. A whole new twelve months to explore, create, and ...

  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...

The paths of life are not what I used to hope are not what I used to believe are not what I used to imagine   The paths of life are very...