Addair and I just got back from the flea market. You can see he enjoyed the ride home. Ashley is getting her encaustic workshop ready and we’re staying out of the house. The flea market is across from bass pro and both Addair and I thought we should make a stop. He likes the fish [...] Continue Reading »
Moms day in
3volatile mama
6I’ve been feeling absolutely awful. There’s the routine nausea and tiredness but the worst of it is soul anguish. It’s impossible to gauge how much of this is contributed to hormones. Likely it’s mostly that, but in the fog of it this is no consolation. I’m not so sure my hormones have leveled out since Addair Kentucky, making normal irrelevant [...] Continue Reading »
a list of sentences, because i feel like i have to hurry
0i really don’t have to hurry, but i can’t shake the feeling so… nausea again worked on the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Art on Tap painting today about to cut the day short so that I can pack and head to Bristol and then Tazewell for an evening of storytelling but before we go I [...] Continue Reading »
the exercise of doing what you want
0I was grateful for the rain because it made for a no question writing day, and honestly it is often a great struggle to get up these days and put on the painters pants and find something that ought to be whiter. Not when the memoir is in the home stretch of a second [...] Continue Reading »
for the attaboys and youcandoits
4Here are some reasons I wanted to update the blog as to the status of my memoir: 1. To explain my writing absence here. 2. To try and get the word out of its existence. 3. To receive some attaboys and some youcandoits. 4. To describe what the tale is actually about. This last point [...] Continue Reading »
pretty pictures (and a sales pitch)
0Yesterday’s efforts toward making money resulted in a $3 sale. I am encouraged by this, but needless to say I must try some more today. Which brings me to today’s announcement… MARCH 26 2013: I’ll send along an original paper quilt and 2 CDs from Levon Walker with any purchase. Happy art shopping! Maybe if [...] Continue Reading »
snowing outside, angel baby at home, mama working right beside
0Today starts my week of bringing in the bacon. It’s the last week of March and I’m at 8% of my goal. It’s going to be a busy week. I hope to reach it sooner rather than later because I also have to put together an Easter fit for Addair Kentucky (I’m thinking of making [...] Continue Reading »
the toppling Honda and aftermath
2First of all it is important to note the resurgence of activity on the blog by one, Ashley Addair, who has returned to our readership and reminded us with playful sentences to be happy in simple moments, to be audaciously yourself, and furthermore I would remind you to vote for her as “best visual artist” [...] Continue Reading »
mostly links to delightful places
0Happy Saturday afternoon and welcome to today’s promotional awareness. I dare to write such a post because its fundraising week at WDVX and WUOT, so maybe just maybe you’ll have a little more tolerance for such ploys here. May I draw your attention to a couple of things that are in my own interest and possibly [...] Continue Reading »
things around the house that make me merry
0Oh joy! What a delightful surprise to come home to a package in the mail with my first ever published cover art. If you don’t mind my saying so, it looks great and I am really excited to read it. As the back reads, “This book is essential reading for pre-service teachers, classroom teachers, and [...] Continue Reading »