I can’t believe it’s been almost a month since I posted. I returned from the islands last week and hit the ground running (and snow-shoeing!) and am trying to hold on to the calmness I felt being near the ocean. It was just what I needed. I feel renewed and re-energized despite feeling a little [...]

It was fun to read all the comments on the eject post-it-note post. Seems like some of you have been in that same place before, and others are maybe standing there present moment. A friend (who is maybe standing some place in between, or rather staring at her eject button from a distance but not [...]

When we were playing at the City Museum in Stl–surrounded by so much funky ART–Patrick said he wanted our house to be MORe fun (like the museum). (Hey! “fun” is my favorite word. Patrick claims it will be our kids’ first word someday.) He went on to dream up this spiral slide coming off the [...]

I took my Nepali language book off the shelf yesterday just for fun and to remind myself of what I know (somewhere deep in the back of my brain). When I opened it, I found this inside: If case you can’t tell, that’s a post-it note with a drawing of an eject button on it. [...]

Happy new year. It’s good to be home after a fun visit with family. And after a week of bitter -20 nights, it is a sunny and ‘hot’ 40 degrees today–warm enough that I don’t have to think about freezing as I walk with Oso. And no eyelash-icicles. It is nice looking back at the [...]

What looks at first to be a construction site/obvious death-trap-for-kids is the coolest playground EVER. While home for the holidays, Patrick and I went on a little adventure to the City Museum. What’s that, you ask? a Dr. Seuss-Moustrap game. a ride down the rabbit hole. and the brain child of artist/sculptor Bob Cassilly. I [...]

My good friend Lisa is having a show of her Holga photographs tonight at TetonArtLab in Jackson Hole, WY. (yeah, Lisa! woohoo!) I wish I could buy them all and hang them as a grid in my studio, but well, my studio is small so I chose these 3 instead. I just can’t wait to [...]

I just saw the documentary Helvetica (thanks Beth!). I was never trained in typography–I was an illustration major, not design. But I LOVE type, and this film was super inspiring to me in different ways…new views, old views, history, permission to play more, and an assortment of ideas about how it can ‘be’. Check it [...]

Everyone needs a little inspiration for their yoga practice some days. At least, I do. When I lived in the city, it was easy. I went to class 4-5 times a week, but now I live so far from town that it’s pretty much “home practice” for me–which is so much about ‘showing up’. Working [...]

“Do anything. Work in a potato field…but if you do work in a field, do not fail to observe the look and feel of earth and all things you handle–yes, even potatoes!” –Ben Shahn I always giggled at the line about working in a potato field, but now I’m livin’ it! I just dug up [...]