Today begins with some good advice for this Gemini from Rob Brezsny: “In Bill Moyers’ DVD The Language of Life, poet Naomi Shihab Nye is shown giving advice to aspiring young poets. She urges them to keep an open mind about where their creative urges might take them. Sometimes when you start a poem, she […]

“All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” — Buddha “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler […]

Can I just insert a boggled face here and be done with it? No? We’ve got just over two weeks before we move and I can tell you, things are getting messy. As I type it’s already mid-afternoon. The light is starting to fade and I’ve just eaten breakfast. We are racing against the clock […]

Over at wildmuse.net my friend Aria has made a wonderful post about artists and their spaces, using the work of Fumio Tachibana for illustration. As anyone reading this blog knows, this topic is currently dear to my heart as I demolish my own studio in preparation for a move. I’m so glad Aria has brought […]

Happy 2012! Can you believe it? I can’t. Last year flew by — and good riddance to it. There was no Studio Tuesday last week, but I didn’t expect there to be what with the general chaos the holidays bring. We usually celebrate Christmas even though we aren’t Christians. I like the idea of a winter […]

Today has been a very slow day. I’ve spent most of it giving the next issue of Scheherezade’s Bequest and the companion non-fiction articles of Cabinet des Fées a final check. Tomorrow I’ll finish the editorial and on Thursday, barring disaster, it will go live. Here in the studio, I’ve been continuing the cleaning/packing spree. […]

I know, it’s Thursday, but I’m still calling it Studio Tuesday so I can find these posts later when I want to check on my own progress. And I’m late again — my old friend bronchitis has paid a visit. So it goes. On the bright side, I’ve finished another in the fox series. This […]

Last week Studio Tuesday didn’t happen. I was unwell for most of the week, but more importantly, on Tuesday I was very busy trying to read Stardust to these two little imps by way of my new web cam. Meet Lydia and Logan, two of my legion of grandchildren. Lydia and I ended up seeing […]