This weekend, I participated for the first time ever as a vendor, offering photos for sale. These are photos I took because I thought something looked pretty cool, and apparently, others   thought the same. So I was invited to participate as an artist. Really? Me, an artist? And so it was. The venue was a brand new one, more geared to […]

See me this weekend in Ennis for Moods of the Madison!

If you ask most people, they will tell you that there are two ways to be at a game or sporting event ~ on the field or in the stands. On the field, you may be playing, coaching, cheering, or judging ~ and any number of other roles that are available on a field. In the stands, you are likely […]

Tomorrow marks five years since I walked out of the doors of a ‘health center’ in south Kansas City, Missouri for the last time. I arrived, hopeful and energetic (well, as energetic as I could be after nearly four years of being mysteriously ill). During my pre-treatment appointments, I was promised that I would be a patient for three to […]

One of my least favorite questions as long as I can remember is, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” It makes a couple assumptions that I just want to challenge ~ first, that there is one thing I want to be, and second, that I want to grow up, or alternatively, that I am not grown up […]