My article on Portland Drop-in Daycare places is live on the Red Tricycle website.

My article on Portland Gluten-Free bakeries for the Holidays is up on Red Tricycle.

Blake’s View 24″ x 24″ Oil on Canvas

Ragged Wood clay, rocks, fir tree, graphite on paper.

I’m feeling kinda rough. I just need a little love and reassurance. I need to know I’m doing a good job and I’m loved. Today I saw a happy light on sale for $40 at Costco and I just happened to have a $50 Amex gift card in my pocket. It seems like a nice…

Graphite tracings, rx color pencil, there and linoleum block on paper 11×14

I don’t have a title for this but I’m considering whether it’s done or not. I might let it sit on my wall for a while and see how it grabs me (or doesn’t). Photocopy transfer and typewriter drawing. The text is from Rebecca Solnit’s “A Field Guide to Getting Lost” I used to have…

Toddlers like to paint. They paint a lot. Piles and piles of paintings amass in a pretty short amount of time. How do I honor all these tremendous works? There is only so much wall space. So, since she’s too young to realize how harsh it is, I’m cutting up her drawings and paintings into…

I feel like, given my setup, this might be the best I can get right now. So I’m moving on. Might come back to it later if I have time before February. This one’s about entropy.

Vellum and black marker, sovaldi wine bottle and cork. Location: Columbia river

Juni and I are heading up to Seattle Thursday to see Anna Fidler’s latest show at Prole Drift Gallery. Anna Fidler: Cherry Bomb November 1 – 25, 2012 Reception: First Thursday, November 1, 6-9pm Prole Drift Gallery 523 S. Main St, Seattle WA 98104

I’m working on a stop motion piece for my grad school portfolio. I needed to do a short test to make sure all the parts were working. I’m getting excited about this one. test 1 test 2 Juniper says “The monster’s cute momma.”

9×12″ photocopy transfer and manual typewriter on paper. Notes: Obsolescence: the state, process, or condition of being or becoming obsolete. Fear of obsolescence. Old growth forest, manual typewriter, photocopier The linear act of typing. Walking away from a career, full time motherhood, getting older, lost, lost lost. Future unknown, path ahead of murky. References to…