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Georgia O’Keeffe in Lake George–Nature as You’ve Never Seen it 2 Aug 2013 | 02:21 am
You don’t need to be in love with the world around you to paint it—Georgia O’Keeffe demonstrated that over some 15 or more extended summers in Lake George, NY, surrounded by mountains and dense woods,...
The Right to Bare Arts 5 Jul 2013 | 05:05 am
My creative friend Anne-Marie reminded me today that the “right” to practice art was on the minds of our early leaders with this quote from John Adams, our 2nd President and one of the framers of th...
How to Spake Like an Austreelian 19 Jun 2013 | 04:42 pm
Accents are very much derived from the lifestyles of the people using them—and to get it right you have to first find the shape of the way they speak. In Australia, there is a great deal of sunlight, ...
Arts Enclave in Sydney! 17 Jun 2013 | 10:16 am
...the best part of my arts explorations was stumbling upon the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition at the Australian Museum. It is a stunning show of the skills of photographers ranging from...
Comments On a Mother’s Legacy 12 May 2013 | 08:20 pm
My mother did not have a big career. She had a big imagination. I remember coming home to find her stripping the walls of my bedroom to paint it deep forest green. I remember her keeping the three of ...
A Freelancer’s Brain on Drugs – Adventures in Wonderland (or CVS) 12 Apr 2013 | 07:38 pm
Freelancing is a lifestyle that tends to appeal to people who have a somewhat unstructured approach to life (with the exception of my sister, also a freelance writer who functions gloriously by organi...
PIPPIN on Broadway, UnFosselizing a Classic 31 Mar 2013 | 10:30 pm
The original Pippin was literally a hard act to follow. Aside from being directed by Bob Fosse, it launched the Broadway (and beyond) careers of Ben Vereen, John Rubenstein, and Jill Clayburgh. It als...
The Pebbles on the Road 21 Mar 2013 | 09:27 pm
Zen Thought for the Day: Sometimes the Universe is trying to teach you something amazing. Chances are, you will never figure out what it is, so you should just shut up and go where it tells you.
Saranac Lake – the Small World of the Winter Carnival 3 Feb 2013 | 10:31 am
You never know who you’ll run into at a frying pan throw in the Adirondacks, but there I was with my little camera and someone said my name. Turning around, I could see two pairs of eyes and big smile...
Live From New York it’s…Saranac Lake 2 Feb 2013 | 10:11 pm
Last night I went late in the afternoon with my Saranac Lake guide, local artist Sandra Hildreth, as the temps were dropping from a high of 14° to see the work on the ice palace. After the horror of t...