Does life get you down? Is it easy to forget your blessings and harder still to forget your troubles each day? Take a few moments to contemplate your dirty dishes. Amazingly, our dirty dishes can remind us how much we have to be grateful for: THANK GOD FOR DIRTY DISHES; THEY HAVE A TALE TO TELL. WHILE OTHER FOLKS GO… Read More
Before the Play is Done
Epigram MY soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new day; the last act crowns the play. Frances Quarles From the first moment that I met Margaret, I was blown away. It was my first day of watercolor class in college and I… Read More
What Hell Week and Scrooge Can Teach You About Love and Forgiveness
Last night I fired my best friend’s daughter. (We’re still best friends and I adore her daughter.) I also shouted across a crowded room for my prop mistress to hurry up and get over here (rudely) and pissed her off to no end, causing her inquire, (not in a loving tone) about my seemingly relentless anxiety issues. I kicked another… Read More


