A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portrait: I’ll Be Seeing You
CAN THE SUBJECT of a painting communicate through his image? One of the dearest stories from any of my portraits
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pet loss
From the Archives: Touched By a Rainbow, 2007
Lucy curls on the landing in the sun at the top of the steps, a rainbow cast by refraction through
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From the Archives, for Memorial Day
Of course, on Memorial Day, I remember my father who was a veteran of WWII, and all my male relatives
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The Alchemy of Love
ANOTHER REASON WHY I celebrate Peaches and her painting, “Peaches and Peonies” during the month of May. The original version
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Life With Pets
When my day was taken slightly off track on Thursday by a deer napping and nibbling in my back yard
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In the Language of Flowers
As I had spent some time working around the yard yesterday Mimi and I also spent some time in the
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Review: “Furever”, and How We Memorialize Our Animal Companions
Each of us has a unique bond with the animals who share our lives, and that includes how we memorialize
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Friends at the End
In early 1996, just about 18 years ago this month, it became clear that Kublai wasn’t recovering through strictly medical
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Things I Found in the Woods, Poetry and Memories
Every year the winter opens up to a few days of warm intoxicating sun and mud in January or
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Healing Our Hearts
Above, a few of the candles burning during today’s ceremony, lit in memory of pets we’ve lost. Each February Deb
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