An Artist Journey - The ups and downs of creation, and how to keep moving forward.

I was recently at an art show where I meet two wonderful young ladies. These two young girls were admiring my work and told me how “cool” it was that I was an artist. I began to chitchat with them a bit.  They told me how they are in eighth grade and their teachers had recently been asking them what they wanted to do in the future, and for the rest of their lives for a career. My initial gut reaction was, that is a bit much for an eighth grader to think about. More so, this is something that...

 Sometimes you feel a calling, an urge, whatever you want it call it, to do something. Don’t be afraid to try it out, I encourage you to travel down that path. It may be exactly what you need to do, or maybe it will be a dead end. The thing is, is that sometimes when we think a road is a dead end, right before the road ends, there lies a hidden short cut to somewhere else.    This year I released my If Pots Could Talk series. It was something I had been brain storming about, and playing with...

When you live in the past, you live in depression. When you live in the future, you live in anxiety. But when you live in the present, that is where true happiness lies. This is something that has come up a lot lately in the things I have been hearing and reading, in different forms and in different wording, but the same concept. This is my take on it.  I don’t believe you can truly live in only one of these areas. Instead I see it as a sliding scale. You need to revisit the past to learn from past...

I have very fond memories of playing a game that my grandmother called “Button, button, who’s got the button?” My sister and I would sit at the top of the stairs and my grandma would stand in front of us with one button in her hands. She would place her hands behind her back and say “Button, button, who’s got the button?” If you picked the correct hand you got to move down one step. With each new chance to pick the right hand, the magical phrase would be repeated. Whoever made it to the bottom of the stairs first,...

I believe in good people, I believe in the warmth and love of humanity.  I choose not to watch the news, and I have not watched it in years. The reason is because I feel it only shows me the bad. The hurt and the hate in this world dominates the news, yet I know that kindness is what dominants the real world. If you set out to find the kindness you will start to see it everywhere you go. You will see someone holding a door for a complete stranger, a mom helping a lost or hurt child that is...