The Arts. Performing, visual and literary. I love them all as both creator and consumer, as author and reader, as actor and audience, as inept sketcher and gallery visitor.   In the few days of 2023 so far, I’ve rehearsed and performed six days straight and...

I love being on stage, I really, really do! But I have a performer's Achilles Heel. I’m talking about hair.   Ideally, any role I might play would involve a hat. This is definitely true for my Living History presentations. Straw boater? Excellent! Beribboned...

Last Saturday marked the conclusion of Advent Bowl 2022. In the four years since its invention I’ve learned to choose activities for the daily random draw that are not only interesting but can be completed on that same day. In 2019 I floundered with “Make felt holiday...

Here we go again. I feel like a five-year-old, trapped in her room and having a never-ending tea party with her stuffed animals. It’s not a COVID shutdown; it’s an unusually cold winter.   Not that I’m complaining! Hey, it’s 5 F outside right now, a 150%...

Hey Lily, hey 9, this week is a special week!   Really? I didn’t notice.   What, you didn’t notice that I wore your black knit miniskirt when I sent downtown for my hair appointment and the last gasps of Christmas shopping?   Don’t stretch it out....

Garden Gnome Phinnaeus (and friend) comes indoors to guard the Advent Bowl. It’s that time of year again. Time to drop kick myself into the holiday spirit with Advent Bowl 2022!   Advent Bowl is my own invention, launched in December 2019 to help me survive my...