[caption id="attachment_438" align="alignleft" width="800" caption="Photo by Helene Lohr, Arches National Park, UT, 2012"][/caption] "Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the...
You won’t meet Charlie if you speed on by. If you book your regular cushy first class seat on the plane you’ll cruise above him at a cool 30,000 feet. Cruising along the Interstate you’ll blaze right on by without a moments thought. Even if you...
[caption id="attachment_382" align="alignleft" width="720"] Photo by Helene Lohr, Santa Rosa Plateau, 2010[/caption] "Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence" ~Eleanor Roosevelt Your 4 walls: The...
"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club”. ~ Jack London If you want to get something done in your life, don’t just sit there waiting for the muse to hit you (with a 9 iron preferably). Want to travel blog?...
My best friend/sister brought her little baby girl over yesterday and we spent the afternoon talking, laughing and enjoying her little one. Tracing the shape of her cheek, feeling her tiny fingers between yours is almost surreal. Earlier last month we were scared that we...
Bringing together the definitions for my book on Textures Techniques has gotten me thinking on the ‘definition’ of art. No matter how we try to describe each technique as accurately as possible, there is something missing from our detailed descriptions. Something essential that the artists themselves...
Every day as a writer, as an artist, every new piece is a new attempt to communicate- an often frustrating attempt to express yourself in a language with few well defined words. I remember as a child sliding into the mental space that let me see...