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 driver for the move was evacuation fatigue and, wow, was it the right decision. We Keep Reading
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 year trying to figure out how to shift my art and teaching. I had spent Keep Reading
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 and only girl, can we say spoiled?), 12 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great grandson. This doesn’t Keep Reading
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 a tame one for a bucket list but I have wanted to do this since Keep Reading
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 inspiration (and there may be one of those later), because a great deal of my Keep Reading
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 the move, I lost all my students. I’ve explored teaching option here in Virginia and Keep Reading
When I decided to update the look of my website, I debated long and hard about bringing over my old blog. Reading through several years of posts…there were some good ones (and not so good ones!) In the end, I wanted this site to be fresh and new and so I decide the blog should Keep Reading
