I had an interesting chat last night with a woman. I had seen her for the past two days at the hotel and she made an immediate impression. She was hard, and seemed to be…

May a lift be easy to find, When you’re falling a little behind. May the friends that make you smile, Come visit for a while. Holiday HAPPINESS I wish for YOU, And a year filled…

I thought I would be so full of words and moments of clarity, pearls of literary ease and brilliance – but I found myself oddly silent. Working to produce Mighty Fingers Facing Change, up until…

Constant forward motion requires a lot of fuel. I’m lowering my anchor for a day or two. I need to just float and absorb the stillness. Then, I’ll pull it up again and hold my…

For seven years I lived in a striking landscape. Mountains shoot from the valley floor. Rivers run as clear as air. I was too afraid to stand in it alone. I was convinced that the…

I’m a square peg. Occasionally rectangular. Every so often, a triangle. But…never round – it seems. Regardless of my shape-shifting, my perception was always an ill fit. It’s gotten better with age. Gravity and experience…

Lilac. It’s a ‘bisexual’ plant that symbolizes love. I didn’t know that. Only that it smells divine and will not last long if you cut it down and expect it to live in a container.…

Kelly Sullivan On the Artistic Road Less-Traveled When it comes to obvious definitions, it’s a challenge to fit Kelly Sullivan into any easily delineated category. Straddling the line between painter, patron and educator, the Lambertville…

To all enthusiastic students, whose efforts, failures, and victories I applaud. “Don’t be shy with the paint,” my grandmother used to tell me. After so many years of trying to figure it out on my…

A wrenching chapter, but relatively short in the span of a lifetime I guess. 15 ½ months of angst & guilt, fear & eventual concurrence led to a spinal fusion. She is in her fourth…