flawed but authentic

As people who follow me at Notes already know, it has been a stressful and uncertain time for my husband and I these past several months. His fledgling freelance graphic design business went through a slow period, and our ship began taking on water. We have been listing badly. “It’s expensive to not have enough [...]

A few months after my middle child was born, I was roped into participating in The Artist’s Way, a 12-step creativity recovery program developed by Julia Cameron. The book had been calling my name ever since I’d picked it off out of my mother’s bookshelf on a visit home, a year or two before. I’d [...]

While Southern California raged last month, Arkansas sulked & wept. Day after day was rainy and glum, until I just wanted to give the weather a good hard slap, tell it to buck up, get a grip for godsake.
It was the kind of autumn weather I grew up with, in Newfoundland: sullen, heavy and grey. [...]