We are still due for some triple digit temperatures, and our neighbors continue to waste water with their lovely green lawns (our is a lovely shade of tan with some of the ground cover greening up after last week's rain). This summer hasn't been a big writing season for me. To be honest I have …
Category: art
I had the pleasure of being interviewed
Last week I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Joan Raymond for her Youtube Channel "A Heart For Writing" - she's interviewed many different types of writers in many genres and I was most honored and delighted to be included. I highly recommend checking out her interviews, especially her interviews with Brendan Constantine, Adam …
Flotsam and Jetsam
Called to jury duty last week, and I always go, and always try to do my best - in support of the Constitution and the 6th amendment. Just the same way I vote in every election that I am able to - my way of supporting both our military and our constitution. Consequently, as always …
Grand Finale 2021
Some years feel longer than others...this last two, 2020 and 2021 felt like a decade. And this month, was a long, long month. I had my booster shot - got sick, powered through it in time to have a holiday visit with extended family (starting on one of the worst rain storm days) and then …
From the heart
The art that I create from the heart always is more satisfying, and this piece is no exception: Sara I painted it for a friend whose beloved companion had passed away. I also knew and loved this little dog, so her portrait came from the heart as well as from memory. Here's a different angle: …
Planning for 2021
I know we still have three months before the end of 2020, but when I worked in "corporate America" the last quarter was when we reviewed the year's budget and began planning the next year's projects and budgets. Photo by Olya Kobruseva on Pexels.com The pandemic pretty much squashed many of the plans and projects …
Monday, Monday
Happy start of the week! Last week was spent travelling and visiting. Yes, even in the age of pandemic, sometimes friends need to be visited. And it gave me a respite, too. Now I am ready to get rolling again - outlining story arcs, painting, finishing up projects and preparing to get started (or re-started) …
Creation
Close up of "Chaos Reigns" - 2' by 2' acrylic pour painting by N. Corres When I get stuck writing, which seems to happen cyclically, I do some other creative thing - painting, and/or crafting, to distract me from focusing too hard on being stuck. For the last few weeks, I've been trying to do …
Motivation
Some days I know exactly what I need to get done and I do it. And others I just want to languish in front of my laptop, googling whatever comes to mind and then hop-scotching along the threads of related searches until even that bores me and then I go read something in my pile …
How are you spending your life?
Life. It is the ultimate currency. How are you spending it? What is important to you? What inspires you to action? I saw an obit the other day, and it talked about how this woman spent her life. Her family, her beliefs, her career...they were her priorities, where she spent that precious currency. For me …
"Wind in her mane" 