Healthy Steps – Week 8
This was a challenging week for me; a three-day weekend, a trip, several stressful meetings, and a slow period at work. Any one of these can and did trigger my…
Tara Choate Just gonna tell you about everything
It’s a three-day weekend. You might think that this would be a perfect opportunity to write a great blog, full of insight and pictures. Ha. I’ve mostly just sat around…
Healthy Steps – Week 7
This week I was down 3.8 pounds. This makes a total of 20.6 pounds (12.2 of those in this year) removed and… drum roll please… 5% of my starting weight.…
A dream (almost) fulfilled
If you ask any artist what their dream is, they will tell you the same thing: Storage space. All artists DREAM of an empty studio, with all finished paintings miraculously…
Healthy Steps – Week 6
In spite of a week that in some ways got the best of me, I am down another 1.6 pounds this week! Frankly, it seems like a miracle because there…
Stealth project reveal – Cosmo and Zoe
As an artist, an especially an artist who plays too much on Facebook, I am constantly barraged with lists of things I could or should do. Sometimes these lead to…
Healthy Steps – Week 5
Another 1.2 lost! I’m very pleased with myself! I am also trying to get another project done tonight, so I’m just going to reiterate my goals (still, no change….) with…
Birch, Anise, and Clove
Yesterday I told you all where we went, but today I plan to talk about WHY we went there. Since March of last year, Key and I have been taking…
Dungeness, Salt, and Ruby
This weekend I went up to Sequim, Washington (Sequim is pronounced squim) to get Key certified for scentwork (that’s tomorrow’s blog.) It’s a bit of a drive, five hours up,…