When you share images of humans, you are making their stories come alive. You make them feel round and real enough to touch and to hug. In doing my 366-day photography project, it has been my goal to share my world with everyone. Today, I am dedicating this blog post to someone who inspires with […]

This is an interview with Presidential Candidate Mighty Mouth, currently leading in the polls. Alice: Hello, my name is Alice, and I will be interviewing you for my blog, “Alice’s Grand Adventures.” Tell me why you want to be president of the United States. Mighty Mouth: Why not? I can make America gape… gag… groan…

I am now in the ninth month of my 366-day photography project. I take pictures of just about everything in my environment. It’s been an interesting way to document my world. Today, I’m focusing on one of my favorite subjects for photography: food. Food is great fun to photograph because it is very colorful and

The Island Ship Center is a great place to go if you want to ship things, large or small. Two years ago, I went there to send a framed acrylic painting to Florida. It’s also a great place to go for really beautiful color copies. That’s where I get all of my greeting cards reproduced.

Today, I am posting pictures of teacups and teapots. It’s quite pleasant to drink tea on a cold day. It’s warm and comforting and inviting. I especially like bone china teacups. They are small, delicate, and they often are decorated with floral designs. I have a few that I bought at garage sales. It’s fun

Zoe is the queen of the household, and she knows it. She has honed her meows for years. She is now sixteen years old so she has had years of experience in making her wishes known to humans via her meows. She is a great talker. She communicates with a variety of meows. She has

Every day, when I go outside, I see a little bit more color. I am so gleeful about the start of spring. Some tiny close-to-the-ground, hard-to-photograph clearly plant pops up. Here’s one of those itty bitty plants that always seems to come out fuzzy and unclear. I tried anyway, and it’s fuzzy and unclear. This

Today I’ll take you through the steps of a painting that, at this point, is still a work in progress. This is how the painting came to be. I have a friend, Amy, who wants me to make a painting to go with the words, “Friends become our chosen family.” I puzzled for a while

Blogging challenges! Today is the first day of the A to Z challenge and the Ultimate blogging challenge. Today’s letter is A. I chose A is for Afghan because I am working on one right now. It’s for a friend who had been diagnosed with cancer. The project Above are a few squares that I made.

It’s been a busy week. Last Monday, I went to the library for a book club meeting. We discussed the year’s classic book selection: East of Eden, by John Steinbeck. We had a fascinating, spirited discussion of this big, complex book. Tonight, we are returning to the library to watch the movie version of East