About six months ago, I began a series of paintings with the underlying thought that my ex-husband was near death. I wanted to work...

After a certain (but not specific) age, we all seem to know that death is a fact of life. Yet when it comes to someone we know, it is...

This photo was in my inbox this morning:  confirmation of a black bear siting at the end of my road yesterday evening.  When I first...

The other day I took Lila for a run on the beach at Cleveland Point. It has a rocky shore and the tide was high. As the waves rolled...

When I came out of my Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM in contemporary lingo) class on Lower Water Street last Saturday, my car had some...

When I opened my email yesterday morning, I found an invitation to be part of a group show in Romania the end of 2010. Pretty cool.  I’d...

Sometimes I wonder if I die tomorrow, would I leave a decent body of work behind.  This is not a depressing thought, just a reality...

On New Year’s Day, my friend Yoko, some of her students and their parents, Aaron and Joanne and I got together here for a musical...

Yesterday I braved the icy roads and went into Halifax to join Aaron and Joanne for brunch. He was born forty-two years ago in New York...

Christmas has come and gone, Hanukkah has come and gone, Tamar’s birthday has past (Happy Birthday, Beautiful!), and now it is a new...

Tuesday, November 10 was Lila’a birthday. We went to Point Pleasant Park to play ball, fetch sticks, meet up with other dogs. Then last...

This morning, while working in my studio, I was listening to the CBC coverage of Remembrance Day.  For some reason, I’m not quite sure...

Yoko just sent me the photos she took of Aaron, Joanne and me at the airport. That was a happy day!  Since then, two weeks ago, Aaron and...

Saturday night a lot of the city was alive with artwork.  Galleries, streets, windows, busses, all sported the message that the arts, and...

Lila and I went to Point Pleasant Park this afternoon for a long walk. It had been raining hard for twenty-four hours but the sun...

I went to PEI for the weekend. (That’s Prince Edward Island, for non-Canadians.) My friend Yoko has some visitors from Japan here for...

The first two photos here were taken by Evelyne. She has a Canon 50D digital SLR. What a beautiful camera! So, with her permission,...

In the past few days I’ve written several blog posts in my head but none have been translated into print. For the long weekend I was busy...

The evening before my kids left, we went to Micou’s Island in St. Margaret’s Bay with my friend Gwen and her dog Kiku, one of Lila’s...

It’s been a busy summer for visitors here in paradise. (I’ve been working on this blog entry all week.  Funny, how “life” just seems to...