I love my neighborhood, the Far West Village. In our early days here a visitor said, “Wow, you live in the Boonies.” We moved into our...

Today is my mother’s birthday. She would have been ninety-two. I can’t picture her as an old lady; she was vigorous up until the day she...

Sometimes the universe, via the grapevine, the internet, the New York Times or the Bible sends me a message that I can’t ignore. This...

“Barbara--that woman across the aisle from you--she’s crazy,” said Arthur. We were on a plane headed to Paris. The flight would continue...

Today would be my father’s birthday. I think about him all the time but today I’ll share him with you. He and I go back a long way...

Earth Day and the First Day of Taurus fall together. I draw lots of cows but I've never done a bull, so I turned to Ferdinand, the bull...

Today is good Friday and the first day of Passover. When these two holy days come together I think back to my daughter, Jessie’s, first...

April 6th is the birthday of Charles Burchfeld, (1893-1967) watercolorist and personal favorite of mine. Just as in the hymn my title...

Last week my friend, Bobby, reminded me that dandelions provide food for our friends, the bees, especially early in the spring. The bee;...

Saint Patrick’s Day and the wearing of the green has gone by but green is still on my mind. Little glimpses of jade and chartreuse are...

I have a long and diverse list of artists who have inspired me, like Georgia O’Keeffe, Edgar Degas, Wayne Thibaud, Hans Holbein, Hillary...

Is it really time for March Madness? The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament begins next Tuesday so basketball is on everyone's...

This is how Jessie described a visit to my grandmother n her school journal. My grandmother, we called her MomMom, died early in the...

Yesterday was the birthday of my friend, Valerie Bessette. She and I went to High School together. Val was petite with silvery blond hair....

How did I get interested in art? I never got uninterested. I drew pictures like all kids but I never gave it up and nothing more...

Arthur and I met on May 11, 1973, the day after the New York Knicks won the NBA championship. Things haven’t gone well for the Knicks...

In church last week the lesson was the first Psalm: it says that the righteous are "like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields...

This week marks the fourteenth anniversary of The Gates, Christo and Jean Claude’s monumental work which transformed Central Park for two...

In talking about things I love that are brown how could I have forgotten Lucy? After Jessie and Sam left home I knew it was time for a...

"Color is made for the perpetual comfort and delight of the human heart." - John Ruskin I agree with that. Coloris one of the things that...