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It’s been a great week after a challenging beginning to March. I was away from my home and studio/office for work and unexpected family reasons for ~two weeks this month and I returned home feeling exhausted and overwhelmed by my projects. I needed some pick-me-ups to feel better and back on track with my energy [...]
It’s been a challenge to learn how to organize my work, but purchasing Bento from Filemaker last year was a big start to managing my portfolio, inventory, and address book. It’s a super user friendly Mac program, and easily customized. I recently upgraded to Bento 3 and am pleased with the new features. Here’s how I’ve [...]
Accomplishing goals and projects requires the commitment of daily work. As a self-employed artist, I strive for productive patterns so that I can, in the words of my Carleton College academic counselor Steve Davis, “trust in process.” At the time he told me this, I was failing macro-economics my senior year, a class which I [...]
Darin and I are finally feeling settled in our new apartment in Seattle and I’m finding my routine of working in the new environment. Moving was a bigger project than I expected- I suppose it always is! It was compounded by helping my parents move simultaneously home from Washington D.C. (we had been care-taking for [...]
When I paint, I can listen to all sorts of audio- sometimes news radio podcasts, sometimes music… it’s as if the right side of my brain is engaged fully with my art, but my left side can process words and music. Lately I’ve had a crush on the radio station WNYCÂ and want to share their [...]
