A detail shot of the latest painting progress.
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I was going to title this post – “don’t sweat the small stuff” but then I realized how much I want to sweat the small stuff. Sometimes that’s what makes me happiest. The changes I made to my painting this week* are pretty subtle. Small stuff in the scheme of a painting that in itself [...] I am not really a stress baker. I am, however, a solidarity baker. And I am definitely part of the grand tradition of generations of women who take to the kitchen when faced with an intractable problem. A pot of soup, a plate of cookies, a loaf of fresh and crusty bread. It’s the [...] You might find me listening to my ‘study’ playlist. This is the playlist of pieces I am trying to learn, hope to learn, or have learned and hope to polish, whether on the organ, piano, or guitar. It’s an eclectic little group, to say the least: Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace Mormon [...] my niece in my parents' garden My mother planted beans this year and they were awful. The sun was too hot and made for a terrible crop. This seems to be a problem every year and she wondered why she ever plants beans. But then she decided to try again. She put in a [...] When I was two and sister number 1 just a year old the Army moved my family from Texas to California. It would be the third home for my sister and me. We lived for a while in Seaside and then moved to Monterey while my father attended the Defense Language Institute. Our brother was [...] A quiet October afternoon. A co-worker friend and I take a walk. It is our usual route with our usual topics. We pass the softball field and see a pair of pink child’s skates forlorn against a bench. A little further and we find a baseball half-hidden in the grass next to a parking [...] the latest on my painting project You have to let your painting change you, so my teacher says. detail of the clouds Just as when I look in the mirror I see some things I like and some I emphatically do not there are parts of my painting I [...] what went right – A lovely day with friends gathered in my home to watch a couple of sessions of the General Conference our church holds twice a year. We watched and talked and ate soup for hours. I managed to be pleased with the results of my hostessing efforts (two pots of soup, lots [...] |
 
Becky's bookshelf: read
I was in a bookstore the other day hunting for something to read on writing when I got distracted by the books on reading. I picked this one up, knowing nothing about Nick Hornby beyond his connection to About a Boy. My impressions in no...
I grew up loving to read and hope to pass that on so every year I get books for my nieces and nephews for Christmas. There are twenty of them and as they're getting older I can no longer give only books I've read so each year there are o...
 
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