Cora’s Surprise
In her junior year of college my daughter ended up caring for a cat who had been viewed as a disposable toy by her original owner. By her senior year, in order to save money, Hannah leased an apartment that didn’t allow pets. So Cora, the cat, came to live with us. We had all been led to believe that the cat came from an animal shelter and had been spayed. Two days ago she gave birth to three kittens in my laundry room. I thought she had just put on winter weight and actually put her on a diet. What a...
Read MoreClearing Space
I am taking an independent study class with John Amoroso, and once a week I am assigned to write a journal about what I managed to accomplish as far as writing my novel is concerned. I have been lamenting the fact that my word output has been miserably low. John told me that when an artist is moving from the incubation phase to the actual creation phase she often cleans her workspace. Today I impulsively rearranged the library where I work. All I really did was move my desk from one side of the room to the other...
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Welcome to my new website and my first blog. Whew! This has been incubating for some time now, and like many creative projects, it has had its own timing. So now that the website is launched, it feels as though there should be some sort of ritual or celebration acknowledging that there has been a change in the world. There has certainly been a change in me, much of it as a result of learning and using integrated imagery. I’ve been working on a novel for a little over a year now that I am tentatively calling, The...
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