My Still Life

I have known my good friend Louise for almost twenty years now. She has been an inspiration to me and an example of how to integrate artistic pursuits into a full time job at home. Through the years she's always been adept at staying creative in the middle of the sometimes mundane, at times hectic…

Wedding Dress

It was one of the hottest days of the summer but I was crawling around in the attic, scraping dusty boxes across the plywood floor, opening them up, searching for that old box, the one with my wedding dress in it. And there it was in the corner, hidden behind the Christmas ornaments, it was…

Half-Life Joy

I've been taking the off-label, psychoactive drug LSD for most of my life. Not the trippy, psychedelic one but the boring one known as long slow distance to those of us in the running world. I guess you could say it's my drug of choice although a lot of days I grapple with the choosing part.…