2025 Goals – Recap
In my goal-setting post for 2025, I said this: “2025 looks to be a very different year for me… I am trying to pursue a goal (authorship) that I hope…
Tara Choate The Birds
Hitchcock I only started watching Hitchcock movies as an adult. I watched To Catch a Thief in my twenties because I saw a reference in a book. I believe I…
The Absence of Apricity
apricity (n): The warmth of the sun in winter Oregon has rolled into rainy darkness. This is fine with me; heat, sunshine, and all the rest are overrated. On the…
Shifting Gears
Whenever I go to a painting workshop, someone will inevitably comment on how fast I paint. It is not uncommon for me to have four paintings “going” at a time.…
Charge Your Brushes
This weekend I attended the always excellent Watercolor Society of Oregon Convention and Exhibition in The Dalles, Oregon. I attended with Catherine Hingson. She was new to the club, so…
Plein Air Production
The last couple of weeks have been busy. The Pacific Artists Co-Op Gallery has been a little short-staffed, due to two artists being out for medical issues, so I have…
Ten reads to a belief in meliorism
Meliorism: the belief that the world can be made better by human effort. (Alternate definition: the belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid its betterment.)…
A: Rainy Days and Fridays
Q: What are two of Tara’s favorite things. If I was running the world, I would add weather holidays to the agenda. The first fine day of spring, the first…
Gotta Love a Rainy Day
Recently, I learned that 2025 has been the hottest year ever recorded on earth. After I got done screaming, “The sky is falling”–and understand, I only stopped because I got…