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  • Personal Legend

    My husband Jay says I am much easier to be around since I started painting again.  He is my best friend and said this to me in a completely teasing way.  I was in art school when I met him and I know it is because I am making sure…

  • Communicate

    This quote couldn’t be more true for me.  I love to communicate with people.  I love to meet people, hear their stories and learn about them.  I want to share parts of myself too but I do hold back a lot. I follow people on Instagram who share little tidbits…

  • Writing Scraps

    I mentioned last week in Reconnecting, that I found some old artwork as I had to pull them out of our basement since we are renovating.  This week, I had reason to declutter areas of my bedroom.  I have areas where I tend to keep my special things tucked away. …

  • Reconnecting

    We are finally working on our basement renovation and I have uncovered some art work from my college days and my youth, that I had forgotten about.  You will see a few in my Instagram posts and in my Instagram story today is a self portrait created by my 5…

  • Coping

    In the last week I was anxious about completing some work I had to do for my ‘other’ job, our construction business. I had to change my thinking and adapt that old saying to change my words from ‘I have to do this work’ to ‘I get to do this…