Inspiration in the Park

Our friend, Doug Kornfeld, has his new sculpture, Ozymandias, in the park of the Decordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, just outside Boston.  It’s a super small museum for contemporary art and a fine place for Ozymandias, which is named after the poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley written in the early 19th century.  In the poem [...]

Sister, Sister

A couple of days ago my son popped in at dinner time and we decided to get some take-out food from the middle-eastern place around the corner. Kebabs sounded good. We’re really lucky to live in a very diverse area of Boston with lots of ethnic restaurants and shops within walking distance, namely Italian, Japanese, [...]

Book Making

I spent the whole of today with my head stuck in  the computer as I march to the finish line designing my book.  It’s great fun but last week was even more fun as I went around Boston collecting art from various artists, some of whom I met by chance, others of whom were recommended.  [...]

Gone!

After following the progress of our robin for the last three weeks or so, we discovered yesterday that she’s flown the coop.  Not only that, the babies are gone.  As you can see there’s no sign of them at all, not even of the egg shells.  Dear A saw them, just scraggly little things, only [...]

Rain, Rain and the Hint of Sunshine

It rains and rains.  Just last week I was wearing a coat and SCARF!!  Today no scarf but still a jacket.  Have we ever had such a cold and chilly spring?  On the bright side, at our house, every day we’ve gotten to peek out the glass doors at the back of our kitchen to [...]

The Answer

Every once in a while I read a motivational book to give me a boost in energy.  The Answer, Your Guide to Financial Freedom and Living an Extraordinary Life, gave me so much that I actually rethought my whole approach to being an artist in the world.  It’s written by John Assarof and Murray Smith, [...]

A Bird in a Bush

If you look very closely you can see a bird in this bush—it’s a robin and she’s sitting on eggs she laid four days ago.  The bush happens to be a ghastly wisteria which is entangled with one end of our small deck off the kitchen.  Two weeks ago Dear A and I were having [...]

A Man at the Pump

I went to fill up the car today and when the man came to pump the gas I inadvertently opened the trunk instead of the gas tank cover.  I never know which button to push, it seems.  Anyway the man laughed and I laughed.  He was young, maybe thirty, and spoke with an accent.  After [...]