About Me

I’m here to change the world.  Aren’t you?

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The way I see it, the world is changed by the ones who participate, the ones who realize that every day presents the opportunity of a lifetime.

Your lifetime and mine.

Every day, an opportunity.

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I spent a lot of years letting my opportunity to participate in this Wild Artful Adventure go by.  I lived what can only be called a false life for the better part of a decade before I finally came to understand that the Great Big Awesome Desires I’d been carrying around with me since I was a kid were not burdens of unfulfilled potential, or foolish dreams best abandoned, but opportunities to live my own truth, my own adventure.  They had been calling to me all along, these touchstones, this stuff that connected me to the world. This stuff that could change the world, my world, and maybe other people’s, too, if I would just open myself up to it.

I am so grateful they didn’t stop calling.

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For the last fifteen years I have been following a path through art and writing and business and motherhood, learning what it means to be open to the world, connected to my Great Big Awesome Desires, living on purpose. These are the things I’ve come to know about, so these are the things I write about.

I don’t think it’s crazy to want to change the world.

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The things I write are like conversations.  They meander.  They go off on tangents.  They circle back around.

The art I make is a conversation, too.

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I like  art because art is full of contradiction. Half the time, people can’t even agree what it is.  That’s because it’s large.  It contains multitudes.

The one thing I know about art is that it likes to be made.  Over and over.  Made and re-made.  Just like love.  And we all know what a contradiction love can be.

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About my art: most of my original work is contained in art journals.  You can find some examples of my journal pages here.   Sometimes I’ll do a canvas, or create sculptural stuff, assemblages, fabric pieces and so on.  And sometimes I make blank books.

I don’t have a studio.  I work at a table in the corner of my dining room, and in my garage.  Sometimes I call the garage my studio, but honestly, I share space with holiday ornaments and a ping pong table.  It’s a garage, and I’m okay with that.

If you’d like to see some of the things I’ve made at my table and in my garage, please visit my gallery.   Most of the journals I make I give as gifts or sell locally, but if you see something that interests you, I’m happy to ship.  Just contact me using the tab on the top of the page.

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So this is an art blog about changing the world.

I post every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  If you like what you read here, I invite you to subscribe, either via RSS or using the email form in the sidebar.   Subscribing is easy and doesn’t cost anything, and you won’t miss any of my world-changing stuff, which might turn out to be your world-changing stuff.  You never know.

Anyway, I’m glad you’re here.

Life is good.

That’s all.