Category: Random

Me talkin to myself

  • When my good friend Stephanie Barrow throws down a challenge, I can’t help but take it up. OK, Steph. This year I’m taking the watercolor plunge, trying something new to keep on building those new neural pathways for a healthy brain. Got me some Inktense watercolor pencils, a cool little water brush thingie, a book…

  • Rule of life: Always have friends that inspire you to be a better person. Meet my dear friend Stephanie Barrow. An artist and designer, not to mention a gardener with a magical touch (Her personal slogan: Art and gardens everywhere!) she takes a kind of fearless approach to life, to trying new things, to embrace…

  • Thursday I danced a new-to-me Nia routine that included a few steps I’ve never done in quite the way we did them. It got me thinking about why I revel in both the new and the familiar in dance. There’s research describing reasons for this. The brain gets a dopamine hit from new experiences. Dopamine…