I am failing with this flip phone thing. I had a lengthy text conversation the other day and it nearly killed me with frustration. Today I had to register my child for something and I had no information on her, no doctor phone number, no student id, not even her emergency contacts. And I’m starting…

Today is the second full day without my smartphone. I felt lighter yesterday. I’ve been carrying around a tiny notebook in one pocket and my flip phone in another. I make copious lists and I felt like I would panic if I removed my ability to do this. One list I made was the things…

In the year two-thousand and something or other I got a sidekick cellphone. Remember those? They had this full keyboard that would flip out. You could thumb type incredibly fast and accurately, faster than I can type on my iphone now. They were fantastic. They had a camera, email access, cool apps for taking notes…

What insecurities do you carry around with you from your past? Does the flushing heat of past embarrassments sit right underneath your cheeks, waiting to surface? When you talk to a pretty woman, does the awkward, nerdy boy try to force it’s way out your mouth, trying to make a fool of you? Or do…

Page of Fire – Mastery of Action Playfulness Life is rarely as serious as we believe it to be, and when we recognize this fact, it responds by giving us more and more opportunities to play. The woman in this card is celebrating the joy of being alive, like a butterfly that has emerged from…

We sit across from each other at the restaurant. You’re staring at your device. I try to tell you about my day but you don’t hear me. I get up to go to the bathroom. At every table there are people, looking at each other, talking to one another. They look engaged. They look connected.…

2016 Leland Ironworks Residency Application is now available online, sales see link below. The deadline to apply for the spring session is December 31st. This year the Residency at Leland Ironworks is sponsored by a grant from the Ford Family Foundation.  This grant will enable us to provide free Residency sessions to 4 emerging artists,…

I’ll be selling stuff at the Staff/Faculty/Alumni Holiday sale at PNCA on First Thursday this week. It coincides with the student holiday sale so there’s a whole lotta arty stuff to choose from. Come stuff your stockings.   PNCA Staff/Faculty/Alumni Holiday Sale 511 NW Broadway, Room 136, Portland OR Thursday December 3rd, 3-8pm (Student Sale…

Truth already exists, you cannot seek to find it. Seek the lie, and in finding the lie, it vanishes. Lies are concealing truths. Covered in debris, truths are always present, just cluttered with lies that need to be cleared away.

Dream: the streets were flooded and lots of fish had swum upstream in the floods. They were gorgeous, red-orange lionhead goldfish and at first I thought, how beautiful. But soon I realized they would all die unless I collected them in buckets and brought them back to the ponds they came from. I tried to…

On this day I want to talk about a few things I am grateful for at this moment. My husband, who is eternally patient and resilient. He is my steady anchor in a dark sea as well as calm waters. At times he is so easy, it startles me how quickly we can turn things…

I just wanted to share some of the drawings I made during my residency at Leland Iron Works in October of 2015. Many are smallish, anywhere from 4×6 to 9×12. A few are 22×40. Much of my time spent at Leland was on self reflection. I thought about relationships and a yearning for connection. I…

I am depressed. I have too many feelings and nowhere to put them. I need to seriously pair down my life. So, I’m stepping back from social media. I’m going back to writing. I’m going back to the blog. Back to the daily practice of photos and writing. Back to writing letters to the people…

PNCA just posted it’s new virtual tour of our campus online. Check it out. www.youvisit.com/tour/62696/?pl=v&hover=1#