In just two weeks, I’ll be heading to Spain to host our annual Story Circle Network International Sightseeing Tour and Writing Workshop. While I am always eager to go on these incredible trips, I am especially excited to have the chance this time to see Picasso’s Guernica in person. This extraordinary painting about the atrocities…
Tag: Art
Flash Fiction: Two Different Approaches to Living
The light was soft in the room, and the windows were covered by three lines of bookshelves that allowed the sunlight to come in but also diffused it. A long built-in wooden couch with lime green cushions and splashes of orange and yellow pillows ran right below the bookshelves. Jacob lay sprawled on the couch,…
Musee d’Orsay Day in Paris
Today, Ray and I went to the famous Musee d’Orsay here in Paris. This art museum is located in what originally was a train station, which was built in 1900. In the early 1980s, it was converted into 220,000 square feet of museum space over four floors, and the museum officially opened in 1986. The…
The Day a Door Flew Open for Me Regarding My Appreciation of Art
Several years ago, a door opened in my life on a trip to France with my husband Ray when we visited the Pompidou Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Paris. When Ray and I first got together, I understood quickly that he had both a great love for and much knowledge about art. I,…
Two of My Completed Pots from Ceramics Class
Here are two of the products of my ceramics class. On is a coil pot and the other is from a slab of clay that I decorated before it was glazed. The coil pot: The decorated slab: I am having lots of fun. I have no expectation for myself, which makes everything just like…
20 Minutes a Day 