Original Bliss

I did it!!! I finished a project I wanted to have complete before Art Every Day of the Month was over. Issue #1 of "Dreaming on the Page - 10 Soul Journaling Adventures" is available for purchase at LuLu. I...

I like to challenge myself to create outside the box. When I was in art/advertising school, my instructors gave out many different assignments meant to force us to keep our thought processes fresh and different - a valid skill set...

Blog-MA: This post absolutely contains extreme profanity, very coarse language, thoughts of violence, nudity and/or strong sexual content. Read at your own risk. Times are tough. In the olden days, say... 50 years ago... when people fucked with you, you...

It's the beginning of day 3 of my work week. My work days are spread really, really thin. I drive an hour to get to work, work an 11 hour shift, and when the rest of the world is heading...

"Trying to figure it out. Wondering if there is an answer. It is a maddening situation... But maybe... just maybe... ??? There is a solution in the CREATIVE." As I said in a recent post, the circus has come to...

"Where is the fun in being proper? There is no laughter in the serious. Keep a light in your heart, a song in your voice, a dance in your step, a smile in your eyes, and a bird in your...

Sexy? Where did the curves go? Who hid the soft and chewy? What about the BAM! and KaPOW!? Perusing through the daily smut... a Shannanism for "People", "Star", "Us", and "InTouch"... I cannot seem to find a fresh, natural face....

"Fading Lotus" After teaching the awesome art journal workshop last week, I came home and immediately signed up for Susan Tuttle's Visual Poetry Online Workshop. I am usually disappointed with online workshops, the quality and professionalism isn't there. BUT -...

I've always felt like an old soul. Even when I was really small, at 4 or 5 years old, I remember thinking, "I have lived such a long time." I feel that so much more today. At 41, I feel...

Two days of mad wind. Cold, Fall, typhoon-inspired gusts threatening to blow all the trees down. Howling, screeching and pounding against the walls while I was trying to sleep. I was watching the birds flying this morning on my drive...

The other day I went to pick up my daughter at school. Mattea is a high school freshman. When classes are dismissed a flood of students pour out of the gates. But finding Mattea is never a difficult task. It's...

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I am a people watcher. Not only do I watch people physically, but I watch them psychically, too. I watch as colors shift in their aura... I can see when they are getting sick, I can see when they are...

I apologize for another work-related rant. Last night, one of my officers came in and asked if I had read this month's Reader's Digest article 911 Calls Gone Tragically Wrong. First, I said, "Who reads Reader's Digest nowadays?" I mean...