Just a head’s up: I am on the road, vacationing my way through Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania for the first week of the month. Due to limited computer access, I won’t be updating the blog, so my regular features will not be posted; Friday 5 will resume August 15 and modus operandi will resume [...]
Due to unforeseen circumstances (read as: nonstop rain making its way from the roof into my studio!), I’m skipping this week’s modus operandi–but the feature will be back next week! (I almost typed “come hell or high water” there, but, given the current situation, that’s just asking for trouble…)
There will be more Artist’s Way posts [...]
(Note: This post is part of a series I am doing on my progress through Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way with a cadre of creative ladies. More info about this venture can be found in an earlier post and all of my related posts are under one category.)
As I’m reading through each chapter, I take [...]
COOKIES!
My husband baked this fudgey cookie recipe last night and it is like all the deliciousness of brownies in cookie form, plus extra chocolate chip cookies mixed in. I think nirvana might be these cookies with a small scoop of high-quality vanilla ice cream in the middle. Nom nom nom, indeed.
Reading Xiane’s post about the “wealth of strong women” who have and continue to support her made me want to share the image to the right. It was made for me in 1996–over a decade ago!–by an extraordinarily supportive English teacher, Janis Ledman.
Angelique - constantly creating herself
The painting graces my studio, reminding me not only [...]
The words above are from an Ani Difranco song, a favorite of mine. And it only seems appropriate to begin with song lyrics, a habit of Xiane’s, since she is the inspiration and instigator behind our artist’s way cluster.
The Artist’s Way is a book by Julia Cameron, a 12-week “course in discovering and recovering your [...]