Notre Romance

    This painting was completed a few years ago and is in a private collection. Why am I just now getting around to sharing it? Beats me.   Anyhoo, it’s an ode to committed relationships, and I’ve since duplicated…

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Pig Candy

    This weekend Mister and I climbed into the car to go to Beer Clug and I looked down at the bucket of Pig Candy I was carrying and said, “This may be the strangest thing I’ve ever had…

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Miss Vera

    On this date in 1907, Vera Owen Bridges was born. She would become a mother 21 years later. Many, many years after that, she would become a great-grandmother. My great-grandmother.   All my memories portray her as an…

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Homecoming

    I read a fabulous piece in the LA Times (link is here) about professional pallbearers. More common in the American South, it’s a relatively new sight here in the California South.   The article delves into the lives…

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