Healthy Steps – Week 2
This week I gained 2.6 pounds. Honestly, while I’m disappointed, I feel like it’s more the category of “staying the same” because I’ve been gaining and loosing that same 2…
Tara Choate The right collector comes along…
As an artist, sometimes you do a painting and you know it’s not perfect, but you like it. This painting of Taylor Said and Winning Machine in the 2012 Longacres…
Healthy Steps – Week 1
So, it’s a new year. And like millions of other people, I have resolved to go on a diet… lose weight… get in shape…. I’m going to stop myself there.…
2018 Goal List
It’s really easy to write down all the things I’d like to accomplish over the coming year. What’s hard is remembering I only have so much time and energy. This…
2017 Goal List – Review
(Accomplishments in red) (sort-ofs in purple) Painting Keep painting Write more exclusively about art in my blog Attend critique group Investigate Salem group Enter both WSO shows Participate in local…
How’s the blogging going – 2017 version
For each of the four (4!) years I have been blogging, I have posted a fairly geeky post about my progress and numbers.It’s something I look forward to, and it…
Lump of (char)coal
My post last week clearly offended the Christmas spirits. As I guess they are listening, I take it all back. The current plan about annual Christmas is wonderful and I…
Okay… new plan.
There comes a point in every holiday season where I have a nearly overwhelming urge to declare myself ruler of the universe and do away with the whole Christmas situation.…
Pelagic Tour (On the Open Sea)
Saturday (December 9, 2017) I went on a 7-hour seabird tour with Oregon Pelagic Tours. I have been following them on Facebook for a while, and they said this December…