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First off, if you’ve been reading my updates you will notice they are now at WordPress, moved over from Blogger. Not sure how it’ll go but thinking it will make things run more smoothly. We’ll see. In the meantime, last time I wrote, I was going to the ENT specialist for my “wonky eye syndrome.” …
Continue reading “Busy times: Vacation, Group Show and acceptance in a juried show in SFO in June!”
Wow, hard to believe such a defining moment in my life passed by and I almost forgot about it! I say defining because as my bio hints, I was a Blue Star mother six times over as my sons – Marine and Soldier – were deployed to Iraq or other war zones in the Middle …
> Long before it was a catchphrase in politics, Elizabeth Edwards gave meaning to the term “Military Families.” The daughter of a Naval Admiral, she moved with her family to U.S. naval bases around the globe. And so it was, during the height of my political awakening that our paths crossed in the fall of …
>what it meant. It was 4 a.m. and a call came in from “Private Caller” so of course I didn’t answer, but I never went back to sleep. So after glancing through Stephen Quiller’s Water Media Painting book, I sunk back into the pillows and tried my hand at meditating after finally finishing and being …
Continue reading “I prayed today that I would have a productive day. I didn’t realize”
> Or, if you are not Catholic, my last blog posting. Mea Culpa but you’ll understand when I tell you it’s been crazy busy. Here’s what’s been going on: Hung the Paige Simmons Salon and Gallery show November 2. Here’s what it looks like in the gorgeous renovated former Tennessee Art League building. Can you …
Continue reading “"Nearly a month since my last confession"”
> This past weekend, my brother Barry Walsh, a fabulous keyboard player in his own right (who has a wonderful instrumental CD that’s great inspiration BTW), married his love of many years, Gretchen Peters. That the two have always made incredible, beautiful music together is a given within Nashville and the Folk and Country Music …
> At least this year in our house. We’d planned a road trip to my sister Patty’s weekend place near Berkeley Springs, W.V. with our dog but life happened and we ended up going further up north as well. We started Thursday with an all-day drive to New Jersey to visit my BFF who was …
It’s my birthday today and I have promised myself this would be a year to remember and accomplish something amazing. Incredible. And something I’d do alone. Linda, my Tennessee BFF urged me to create my bucket list, something that hadn’t occurred to me before she dragged my unwilling, warm, cozy tush to the county’s outdoor …
Continue reading “I’m 50 and I can do what I want! (Like, take up painting!)”
I feel compelled to use this title since this past Mother’s Day, May 11, 2008 was a day that bowled me over with emotions, both good and bad. It was, without a doubt the most extraordinary Mother’s Day of my life and I felt validated as the mother of these two fine young sons of …