Sparkles (2010)

Sparkles (2010) pencil on paper, 16 x 20 inches

Children (2009)

Aedan shoveling snow, 2009, pencil on paper, 8 x 10 inches

Janae, Jha Jha and Tina dancing, 2009, pencil and acrylic on paper, 12 x 15 inches

Girlfriends (2009)

Anna on the stoop in Philly, 2009, pencil on paper, 8 x 10 inches

Jackie, my long lost ex-pat, 2009, pencil on paper, 8 x 10 inches

Sedimentary Layers (2009)

Sedimentary Layers, 2009, fused glass, 15 x 10 inches

Cave Woman and Modesty (2011)

Cave Woman, March 2011, pencil and charcoal on paper, 15 x 10 inches

Modesty, January 2011, pencil on paper, 15 x 10 inches

Self Portrait Series (2010)

Drain

Aqua

Self Portrait  (2010)

Acrylic, charcoal, and pencil on masonite

12 panels in the series

Hallway

12 by 24 inches each

Lava

Pray

Roofdeck

Shoulder

Silenced

Slip

Spill

Spray

Wrapped

Sanderling by the City (2010)

Sanderling by the City, 2010, pencil and acrylic on paper, 6 by 18 inches

Vietnam and Femme Fatale (2009)

Vietnam, 2009, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches

Femme Fatale, 2009, spraypaint and acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches

Life with Norman Rockwell

How Normal Rockwell Dealt with a Studio Fire in 1943: Drawing a Funny Cartoon

Poetry with Longfellow

There was a little girl
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

 

There was a little girl,

            Who had a little curl,

Right in the middle of her forehead.

            When she was good,

            She was very good indeed,

But when she was bad she was horrid.

Longfellow's second son Ernest says of this poem,

It was while walking up and down with his second daughter, then a baby in his arms, that my father composed and sang to her the well-known lines .... Many people think this a Mother-Goose rhyme, but this is the true version and history

I love this poem...it was one of the first I ever learned. I always imagined myself as the girl with the curl.