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  • Dueling Pain

    Has anyone uncovered the secret To meeting grief face to face? To accepting that you’ll be in pain Across many a time and place? Shall I approach it as a new chapter, Or a dramatic life change? How can I know if I am equipped To battle a pain this strange? Do I face grief…

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  • Preventative Care and Me

    This topic rests so very close to my heart. Something I’d like to call preventive care. Preventive care in its basic form, means “preventing medical problems before they can become major”, but I’d like to expand this to discuss preventing major stress.  Many of you are likely working very hard in more areas than just…

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  • Honey

    My honey is so warm He heats up every cold room Cleans up any discontent Filters out the gloom My honey is so golden, I would dive into him when I am blue Sink into the unseen And as he surrounds every inch of me We become a brilliant green My honey is so sweet…

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  • Tears of Oil

    This was my first attempt at oil painting after a year of using exclusively watercolor and acrylic. Any thoughts to which emotions are being conveyed?

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  • Aquanium

    This is my newest watercolor piece, “Aquanium”. It was inspired by the barreleye fish, a fish with a transparent head which allows its internal cranial organs to be visible. This deep sea organism’s transparent head allows it to absorb more light. Creatures with bizarre attributes like this sure make me contemplate. How did they evolve…

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  • The Perfect Organism

    Among all the animals I adore – octopi, elephants, jellyfish, salamanders – as basic as it sounds, the C A T may just be the ultimate form of life on Earth. Hear me out. It is well known that housecats are the ultimate predator in the natural world. If you’re my age or older, you…

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  • Lawless Night Pauses

    You run toward the lawn behind the bar, adjacent to a small pond. A wide bed of long lush grass spreads tauntingly in front of you and you swiftly lie down without hesitation. The average person underestimates the luxury of laying in a bed of soft, weedless uncut grass. The blades surround every inch of…

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