2025 Annual Review
I’ve already done a Creative Soul Life episode with the same title but I still want to do my annual recap here. Normally I do a bit of a deep dive into each aspect of my life including my art…
Category Musings
Finding Meaning: The Artist’s New Mission
In my last blog post, I talked about how essential purpose is, especially a meaningful purpose, as we enter the “second half” of life. Specifically, I’m grappling with the question: How do I find a meaningful purpose in creating art…
Desperately Seeking Purpose
I’m in that life stage—empty-nest and semi-retired—where I’ve been doing a lot of deep reflecting lately. Much of this involves talks with my husband, who is hoping to retire in the next few years. We’re consuming tons of reading and…
Teachers – The Original Influencers
In my recent email, Cultivating Creativity, I talked about how teachers were the original influencers in our lives. Thinking about that started me on a deep dive on the three art teachers that had the most influence on me and…
2024 Annual Review
Big Move and Bigger Hurricanes The biggest event of 2024 was my husband and I selling our home on a barrier island on the Gulf of Mexico and moving about an hour to the other side of Tampa Bay. The…
2023 Annual Review
2023 was an…um…trying year. From the tone of the memes and Tik-toks, I think we all struggled a bit over this past year. I will say overall it was a good year, just hard. Shift…and Still Shifting I started the…
Family, Food and Fighting
With a title like that you know I’m talking about Thanksgiving. I have a big Southern family. My amazing grandmother is still our matriarch at the age of 96. She’s has 4 children, 8 grandchildren (of which I’m the oldest…
Why not now?
Bucket Lists…do you have one? I think everyone has some sort of vague idea of things they’d like to do before ‘kicking the bucket.” I did one of my things last week. I dyed my hair pink. I know that’s…
Feeling Empty…and it’s Wonderful!
I’m writing this post sitting outside on a deck at Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. I have a cup of coffee beside me, everyone else is inside asleep and I am soooooo relaxed. I had thought this post would be about…
The Seesaw: Attempting to Balance Life
Ah…that elusive word…Balance. The Holy Grail of our modern existence. We have to do so much, we want to do so much, we need to do so much. How do we balance it all? I headed back out into the workforce a few weeks ago. With…