When I was a little girl, my mother would take us to Woolworth’s on the Barre-Montpelier road(Vermont). On the very best days ever, she would treat us to lunch. If someone asked me, then, what the very best place to eat was, it was the Woolworth’s lunch counter. Fries fried in good old heart…
Category: autodidact
do you see it?
for what it really is? We’ve all heard the saying,”take time to stop and smell the flowers” but really, who has time for that nonsense? Who has time to see the beauty in this invasive, defiant little wonder? I do. I see a little too much. Funny, that. I am legally blind in my right…
i’d like to introduce you to fibromyalgia
During our spring break, I made a promise to myself that I would use different parts of my body. I would give my right side, arm & back, a rest from blogging. I would give my physical therapist a break from having to place my vertebrae back in their proper places every. single. Friday. morning….
There be dragons…ninja aliens & a blue bull
2me4art project: This art project is one of my favorites. The boys who made these creatures were ages 5-7. They are wonderful fun to make. All you need is tinfoil & masking tape, primer paint & acrylic paint & finally mod podge. Most important you need an imagination! I always have the children make something…
ready for a good laugh? My art class
At the beginning of all my art classes, the children learn to draw something, some times we ink & color it. The younger the child, the simpler the subject. I usually chose animals. Animals that can be drawn by using basic shapes. Yesterday, I had three boys. The youngest is in kindergarten. The oldest is…
Daily Prompt: Never gonna give you up
Today’s challenge is to find a vice one doesn’t like in another. I’ve chosen, instead, to write about my own vice. Anyone in my company will soon find that I am scanning my surroundings for “images begging to be taken”. Life surrounds us all, but my vice is the need to capture every bit of…
blogging is finding modern pen pals…
I have a wonderful pen pal named Mo. She is an artist & a photographer based in Australia. I posted photos of a large chess set found in the front of the city center in Crestline village a few days ago. This is her comment: “There’s a huge public chessboard in Fremantle, the port south…
Daily prompt: i did it my way
I was taught how to see. My father supported us as a photographer before graduating as an Optometrist. Photography is what i do, it is what i love. I was developing & printing photographs at age of five. We had a dark room in both the houses we lived in, in Vermont. But I wanted…
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