December 2020

 I have never experienced a Christmas like this one. It is the first Christmas that I won’t spend with my family, enjoying meals and doing group unboxings. I won’t sing with a church choir. No “Silent Night” in a candlelit church. No decorating the church. Nothing. Just me and the decorations that I have put […]

The COVID 19 pandemic has resulted in the cancellation of all indoor gatherings. Because the Grand Island Historical Society cannot hold its annual Christmas gatherings, here is a collection of photographs from years past.  

 “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” — Pablo Picasso Are people born to be artists or is art a skill that anyone can develop with a lot of practice and good instruction? There is a concept among many people that, to be an artist,

 Today’s blogging challenge is to share content that evokes emotions. Well, there is definitely a huge range of emotions that could be evoked, especially now, during a worldwide crisis. A time like this is when we need to remember that this, too, will pass. Also, that distractions are definitely welcome during a very difficult time.

Today’s blogging prompt from the Cornerstone Content challenge is to share content that evokes memories.  So I decided to share a whole bunch of images of things that might evoke memories in the form of an acrostic. An acrostic is a poem where the first letter of each line spells out a word or a

 When I was in high school, my sister taught me to crochet. At the time, crocheting seemed like some sort of novelty that I would try for a while and eventually forget. Diane had taught me to crochet left handed because she couldn’t figure out how to demonstrate right-handed crocheting to me. At the time,

 “Many waters cannot quench love. Neither can floods drown it.” –Song of Songs, 8:7. When I was struggling with something unpleasant or hard, my mother always said to me, “And this, too, shall pass.” As a middle school student (half a million years ago), I didn’t understand what my mother was telling me. In my

  Earlier this year, I moved into an apartment, and I had the opportunity to create a living space for myself. In the past, interior design was not a priority. I had places to go, people to see, adventures to be adventured. But, because of the pandemic, my move to the apartment slowed down until

 Today, I am starting the month-long Cornerstone Content Blogging Challenge by talking about a few of the books that have inspired me to stretch as both a writer and as a visual artist. These books offer information that helps me build my skills, as well as encouragement to step out of my comfort zone. When