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:

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The Face of a Traveled Artist: Lipstick, Wrinkles & Recognition

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What began as a birthday gift — a simple little box filled with fresh flowers from Victoria and Simon — slowly became something more. After sitting nearby through months of painting, blogging, puppy chaos, and life at Fo...

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Sunflowers in a Complicated Season

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There is now a small network of Maggie containment systems around my little world.

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Maggie has other plans!

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This morning, I put my top on carefully. I checked it, made sure I had it right. And still, the tag ended up under my chin. So off it came. Turn it around. Try again. Then I had a rock in my sock. Just one. Enough to sto...

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To Whom It May Concern:

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(and a Fourth Helping)

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and the Art of “What If”

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Who hasn’t?

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Carving out a little peace in paint.

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A small studio life with a young pup, an old hen, and a growing flock

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Painting, Companionship, and Figuring It Out as I Go

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There are days when an image won’t leave me alone.

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-doesn’t look like confidence anymore.\nIt looks like persistence — being pushed back, gathering yourself, and choosing to try again, knowing the effort itself may be the cost.

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Made in shared moments, gentle language, and an open way of working

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This painting grew out of a spring-like February — the kind where the days are gentler than the calendar suggests, but the feeling of winter still lingers.

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An inside peek, truths told

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Painting, patience, and a life close at hand

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Building a life in art outside institutions, ladders, and luck

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Between then and now

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I’ve been an artist for as long as I can remember, but I’ve never experienced that as something finished or settled.

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December 25 — A Quiet Reflection

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a continuation of yesterday’s thoughts — after a night’s rest.

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where I've always lived....

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Painted in one day, with a puppy nearby.

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The Work Behind the Music

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I’m still painting. I’m still exploring. This is how I live now.

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I’ve been painting.

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And YOU who walk with me.

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Carrying a Quiet Heartbeat Into Your Days

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How the sixty pieces I painted from my rocker kept whispering the larger visions I finally found the strength to paint.

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A weekend where life and art meet at the crossroads of time.

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Finding stillness and inspiration at the edge of the day

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Inside the studio, the barn, the tiny house — living the rhythm of what I do.

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There are mornings when I sip my coffee, glance at my website stats, and wonder where everyone’s gone.\nNot long ago, connection meant something you could feel — a phone ringing, a letter in the mailbox, a friend at the d...

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There’s something quietly magical about turning my Idaho originals into postcards and notecards. Each one begins as a full-sized painting — a landscape, a barn, a chicken, a moment of light — and ends up as something you...

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still here, still painting, still terminally unbalanced

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Passing the Tune\nDrae has learned her way through fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, piano, bass, and ukulele — not to master them all, but to help others find their first notes of courage. Our place is small — just the de...

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The Warmth of Small Things

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PART II: The Road Ahead

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Two voices, thirty-two years apart — one written in loss, one in renewal — both reaching for light through the same brush.

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PART I: Preparing while I still can.

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The End of Fifty Years on the Road

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(and Other Art Show Confessions)

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From weight of words to the lift of laughter — a softer turn.

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Drawn to History’s Rise and Fall

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No more silence

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Why Fairness & Truth Won’t Let Me Go

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