Everybody has quirks. My mother is no exception. One unique thing about my mother is a penchant for shipping strange items across the country or bringing them in her luggage. In the past she’s shipped or brought things like old stretcher bars, oreo cookies and broken lava lamps (no mom, you didn’t break it, it’s […]
This is a detail shot from a painting on unfinished poplar I’m working on. It is a portrait of a family member that I found this great emotion packed photo of in my mom’s vault of photos. One side of my family has green eyes that are made of lots of little bits of […]
radio silence
I have three new paintings that are nearly finished. My thoughts are elsewhere, however. Every month my expenses go up (okay, sometimes not every month – but January 2010 brought in many rate increases, like a $30 increase to monthly HOA payments), and every month my income goes down. I was promoted to management two years […]
unfinished business
Two of my new paintings are “finished”, but I want to show them to some other people before I say for sure. They both have some very obvious flaws, so I’m going to let them sit, get some opinions and come back to them later. While I’m waiting for that I’m starting work on another […]
a very blue day
Saturday began with a trip to Landmark to see Avatar with Sam, her sister and brother in-law. I don’t know if it was because it was my second time seeing it, but everything seemed much clearer and crisper than in Tucson. Whereas before most “blue cat people” shots seemed still too fuzzy and fake they […]
New things for an old year
On new year’s eve Sam invited me to go with her to dinner and join her friends and friends of theirs. There were eleven of us eating at the Dragon Restaurant in Koreatown. Dragon brands itself as “Chinese Restaurant,” but it is known for its fusion of Korean and Chinese cuisine. They have eight different […]
christmas day 8
Wednesday morning it was time to leave our desert hotel behind. We headed to the airport at the ungodly hour of 4:30am PST. (of course, my mother gets up this early to go to work every day) My journey was just beginning when I got on the plane though. At our LAX gate we had […]
christmas day 7
Today I got up earlier than I even would to get up for work on a normal day. Tomorrow I’ll be getting up around 5am to catch the plane back – so knew I had to “adjust” accordingly. The weather today was a little better than yesterday, but we made our plans without knowing that […]
christmas day 6
After a quicker breakfast at the hotel restaurant we headed to the PIMA air and space museum. We spent most of our time outside in the bitter cold. Dad served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War, so he was very familiar with many of the planes, and even had stories about riding in […]
christmas day 5
Our first full day in Tucson started off with “free” breakfast in the hotel restaurant. High school cafeteria pancakes (or scrambled eggs) were served up with little sausages and a drink. The hotel wasn’t properly staffed for a full house, with only one cook and two waitresses waiting for a whole hungry hotel of guests. […]