Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Phobia


Fear of puppets or Pupaphobia - both debilitating and all encompassing.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Change



"The falling leaves drift by my window, the autumn leaves of red and gold." My dad used to sing us that song - so bittersweet.

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Farm


My youngest son used to be obsessed with scarecrows. He was always asking me to draw him pictures of scarecrows. So this goofy little guy is dedicated to him.

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Friday, August 25, 2006

Run


Despite running furiously Lucinda could not elude the relentless march of time.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Match



When putting together an ensemble or designing your dream kitchen matching is always tops on the list of must-have specifications!

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Play




The right to play is every child's perogative. Play is a vital and intrinsic part of young children's intellectual, social and emotional development. Yet the powers that be seem to be conspiring to eliminate all freeplay time from a child's day. Structuring every moment of a child's day with one-dimensional rote memorization tasks while neglecting play and those activities which require generation of ideas and use of imagination results in diminished learning. So go play.

Sunday, July 30, 2006

Clean

Felt like adding this bonus image at the last minute.

Jack's mother slaved away just to keep their humble little cottage clean. And was Jack grateful?

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Rain



What a prescient choice of topics! It has been raining all week here and the river keeps on rising!

Monday, June 19, 2006

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Jungle

I have just returned from the jungle (cloud forest to be exact) and my mind is still reverberating from all the spectacularly gorgeous sights. I had some trepidations about visiting Costa Rica in June anticipating heat but the cloud forest is cool and moist. What a thrill to see monkeys in the treetops and tons of hummingbirds.

Friday, May 26, 2006

Cake


Trust everyone will have a fun and safe holiday weekend. I'll be going to Costa Rica to visit my daughter who is teaching English there.

Monday, May 22, 2006

Sorry

Albert immediately regretted venturing into the clutches of the great beast.

The Devil

A lttle addendum here to my last post concerning the devil. I believe there to be a devil but I believe obssession with devils or even angels for that matter is wrongheaded. I think the focus should rather be on God and we needn't obsess about the other stuff because if you are a Christian "greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world" He being the Holy Spirit. Just wanted to clarify. Thanks for bearing with me.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Angels and Devils



When I was a little kid living in Indiana there was this bump on the sidewalk where the concrete was all crumbled. Some kid told a friend and I this was because the devil was coming out from under the ground. At first we were very excited-Yah,let's see the devil- and tore into the sidewalk grabbing chunks and pounding to see if we could break it up more. Then we got really really scared and proceeded to reassemble the shattered pieces. Who knows if a couple of intrepid 4 year olds had not averted a major satanic eruption. So if you happen to be casually strolling down the sidewalk and you see a bump and it's all sort of crumbly like. You know what's going on.