I drive a used car. It’s a nice one, a Chevy Suburban that we have been putting money in to for a while. Why not buy new? Because I own this one. The cost of repairing my car is less than the payments on one that is new. Buying a new one would be around $700 a month (for a similar model) and so far the repairs haven’t added up to that much in one year.

My friends are always telling me that I am really busy. I’ll admit, having a weekend with nothing scheduled is odd. When you realize that everything on your schedule is what you choose to do, it doesn’t feel like I am doing too much.

Before I began my career as an artist, I would tell people that my mother was an artist. We hear people claim it, use it to describe their relatives or talk about artists but what does it mean? We talk about people who cut hair in the same general term but as with any creative endeavor it doesn’t really talk about your level of commitment.

I was working very hard on my last residence. I knew it wasn’t going be my last house, but it was the current house and my husband I did a lot of things to it. When I asked my best friend about it she said, “feather the nest that you are in.” I thought about it for a minute and then went to pick out paint.

I am a member of an artistic organization.  That is to say, our common denominator is our joy in art.  Some of us are professional, some of us want to learn to sell, some want to learn new techniques and mediums and some of us just want to be around people who do art.  You can understand how not all of these people need to worry about covering overhead and making a good profit. 

My family and I are on baby watch.  We are excited, worried, sympathetic, and keeping our cell phones right next to our bodies.  This isn’t the first time for but this time, at least I am within 75 miles of the delivery area.

Recently, I decided to change my website. I was paying a company to maintain it, publish it and host it. When it came down to it, I was doing most of the changes myself. I met this fabulous person who said, “Oh, I can help you so you can change everything and update it without using someone else.” Here I am working with a new webpage platform.

Well, that isn’t really the truth.  I have a small part time gig that pays for my framing.  Any artist can tell you that one of the most expensive parts of doing art is mounting so this is a god send.  The gallery where I work, also does art restoration.  At one point, my boss decided that I might be pretty good at it and so she started having me do small projects.  You know how that goes, if you do something well; yep, now I have done bigger ones.  (There was even one on display at a museum that I worked on!)

I have spent the last 2 weeks fighting an infection.  It was exacerbated by toxic exposure to voc's (shocking as an artist that I would be exposed.) and then I developed viral pink eye.  Several years ago, I suffered a bit of a breakdown because I was pushing too hard trying to do too much under stress and working at 3 significant jobs at once. …