“Sit in a room and read — and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto…
The image above is Solitude by Frederic Leighton and I find it to be a comforting image. It grabs me. Leighton wrote about it to…
We celebrate Thanksgiving this week and I am grateful for so much. My greatest blessings are certainly my children and my family, but what I…
I’ve spent my entire adult life pursuing Pre-Raphaelite art and in doing so, I find that what I actually discover is myself. Art and literature…
Today begins the forty-second year of ME! ‘Tis my birthday! In Ulysses, Tennyson said ‘I am a part of all that I have met’ and…
There’s a horror that sets in just before a new beginning. It can cripple you. The key is to understand the process. Like everything else…
I receive many positive emails through this blog because, for the most part, people in the world are great. The negative ones stand out, though,…
When I was fifteen years old, my father taught me how to drive. I was eager, yet scared; I couldn’t believe that I had actually…
Since it is now the beginning of Summer, Sweet Summer by John William Waterhouse seems a fitting painting to contemplate. Reclining in the grass, a…
