Category: creativity

  • OK, I have a bone (thread?) to pick with all the wonderful women who taught me sewing over the years. Thank you, of course, grandmothers, mother, aunts, mothers of best friends, etc. Because of you I have been making things, some of my own design, all these years. But why did you introduce me to…

  • Putting your soul under somebody else’s microscope isn’t easy. But that’s what writers do when they join a writing group, a gang of fellow authors who hear or read the first draft as it comes in bits and pieces fresh from the fingertips of the author. First audience, cheerleader, critic and deadline monitor, writers show…

  • This is a clip from a Stephanie Barrow painting, and if you want a feast for the eyes, visit her website. I confess I am biased, but I can’t help loving her art. A friend, I have watched her work evolve over the decades we have known each other. If I were to create a…