A while back I wrote a post about collecting old wooden spools. Why does any collector collect? I don’t know...

After hearing the phrase “Keep Your Head in the Game” at a meeting, I spent the weekend thinking about what...

Or perhaps I should have said, Preoccupied with Octopi. This is the second of two blog posts about making a...

On a street corner outside a noisy concert, a friend pulled out her phone to make a call. I was...

Kerry wrote me, “my friends and I took a brief online course with Jane LaFazio...about sketching/watercoloring in public…we did just...

Celebrating Labor Day by working with my hands today. Sometimes I wish I had extra hands, but these won’t really...

Had to get the antique irons out for this one. Some patterns that I draw are either so big, or...

Kimonos have always fascinated me and influenced my work. Not as a piece of clothing, but as a form of...

Luckily I have a great technical support team. Russ is my main got-your-back guy. He coaxed the big printer into...

I know for my online Japan Journal, I should probably first show you the pretty photos of snow-covered ancient pine...