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Yesterday I set aside some time to work on some drawings. I’d had these images floating around in my head. More than images, they were ideas, the essences of the images. (Well, it makes perfect sense to my brain, anyway.) I was excited to finally be able to let these idea-images out onto paper. Pausing [...] Here’s a little story about using logic to outwit the monsters*. For those of you who are unfamiliar with monsters, here’s a brief introduction: they are the parts of you that get really scared or even outraged whenever you try to do something a bit more daring. That something could be working [...] So I have this lovely orange bike named Cristina. I didn’t name her – she was already a Cristina when I found her lying abandoned, minus a front wheel, in an empty square one summer night. That night, I took poor Cristina home and gave her a new front wheel, new brakes and a [...] Friends! Despite my resolve to post every day this month, I didn’t post yesterday. Yes, it is true. And I have a note from my doctor. So I hope you’ll excuse me. Well, rather than a note, I have a series of lab results that say, “Dear madam, do you realize you’re running on [...] … Okay, that title isn’t entirely accurate. This post features scenes that were photographed in an alley. And it wasn’t really an alley, but more of a side street. Alright fine, I took a bit of creative license with the post title. So. About this time last month I was in Arezzo for its [...] Any elves in there?
I will be honest with you. It’s past midnight. Today was one of those Really Long Days in which I spend a truly indecent amount of time in front of the computer doing work that is neither artful nor playful. One of those days when I [...] Categories: Showing Up
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This post was supposed to feature a photo of one of my recent food obsessions, cecina. Cecina by any other name Cecina is apparently eaten up and down the coast from Pisa all the way to Nice (says Wikipedia) but it goes by different names depending on where you eat it. The basic recipe, [...] … I am really off my rocker. One of my Twitter friends, @KarenCHyde, sent out a tweet yesterday: Now, bear in mind that when I saw this tweet, I had just returned home from having massive amounts of blood taken from my scrawny little self, and was probably light-headed and definitely incapable of making [...] Categories: Showing Up
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I conducted a little experiment yesterday. But first, some background: This week has mainly been about taking care of a number of things I had been putting off, and a few, more recent (and urgent) things. Since I live in Italy, most of these things involved getting certificates with official-looking stamps on them. That, [...] Categories: Drawings, Play, Showing Up, Silly sketches, The Cheering Section, Time and Space
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OK, fine, it’s actually a blender. I don’t own a real food processor. As always, donations are welcome. But friends, the point is: I have been processing. There has been a lot going on, although you wouldn’t necessarily know it given the lack of posting here. A few things that have happened: - [...] |
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