The LAHL artist of the week is Wassily Kandinsky and he has traditionally been one of my favorites. I remember a visit to either the Guggenheim or MOMA in my late teens and I bought a journal with a Kandinsky...

Hey there!  So I’ve been off and on busy and haven’t given The Happy Water Color Course from Bloknote Academy the attention it deserves.  I changed that this week and have completed the fantasy...

Autumn has a special charm and sadness about it.  I love the season while hating what it signifies, the end of green and the end of warmth. Despite the predictions that this fall would fall flat due to the...

Merry Christmas Morning! I gave myself an early present to go with some items I put on my wish list and bought a Craftsy course on sketching landscapes in pen, ink and watercolor.  I must say that I’m...

I envy those that can stay the course on one hobby, but then I don’t.  My shifting creativity keeps life interesting and our home in fresh supply of weirdness and awesome.  The current obsession is...

My friend Ashley likes tea.  A lot.  It is inspiring the amount of tea she drinks and how quickly she has developed a comprehensive knowledge of herbal teas, how to use them to treat specific concerns and how...

Thoreau noted that, ‘the language of friendship is not words, but meanings’. This is a frustrating quote for me to think about, as I am not a great friend in many ways: I don’t remember...

Life can get ya smelly!  Some of us suffer more than others and, while unfortunate, it is part of life. Over the past decade, I have experimented with a lot of natural deodorants and antiperspirants.  I tend...