Easing Into the Senior Years
In September 1987 I took in an emaciated little scrap of gray tabby fur. The kitten was so weak it
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November Featured Artwork and Desktop Calendar: “After Dinner Nap”
The subject of my November desktop calendar should be pretty familiar if you follow me; this painting goes nearly back to the beginning of my career as an artist, and Stanley goes all the way back to my rescue beginnings, showing up on my porch in 1986, crouching in a November ice storm until I opened the door and let him in.
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From the Archives: Sunny Autumn Mornings and Rainy Day Kitchens
It seems September is for memories…when the sunlight in the morning reminds me of these two, just as the green
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A “Back-to-School” Garden Flag
Last August when my felines and me watched the neighbor kids running for their bus in the morning on the
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Rescue Story: Watch Your Window Screens
I had a near miss with an old screen over the weekend and thought I’d share this experience from years
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Featured Artwork Reprise: Stanley With Geraniums, 2013
“Stanley With Geraniums” was not a daily sketch but was a new piece of artwork I’d created last year in
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From the Archives: Independence Day Through the Years
Stanley is a little sleepy but we wanted to send you wishes for a nice Independence Day, even if you’re
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Daily Sketch Reprise: Stanley With Apple, the Sketch
So because I had long thought today’s vintage photo would make a nice painting I decided to use it for
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Vintage Photo: Stanley With Apple, 1990
Sweet Stanley dozing in the evening sun just a month or so after I moved in here in 1990. I
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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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