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Shrimps
When my cat gets anxious she starts licking her fur. Apparently I start drawing shrimp. Here are this week’s shrimps …. (sorry the mustachioed shrimp is so fuzzy – I’ll deal with that later … or not) Ahhh … now I feel better. How...
Sat. Sept. 28 – Flagpole Radio Cafe – Newtown, CT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sat. Sept. 28 – 7pm – Newtown, CT – Buy Tix Now I have a new show in less than two weeks — and if that sounds like it came out of the blue — it did! In the world of shows and concerts, most are booked months or...
A Show of Force at the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
From a kitchen in Somerville, MA to a Show of Force at the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony … here’s how it happened. Why do we do ridiculous things? Crazy. Silly. Dangerous – to body or career. Pointless … Fun. I finally accepted I’m drawn to the...
A Funny Thing Happened this week on Facebook
I can still feel overwhelmed and lost in the social media world — the same way I often feel in the real social world — but I have a very strong sense of connection to the 5000+ people who ‘like’ my official Facebook page, and I often find myself curious...
The Man Who Moved Harpists
People talk about supporting the arts. I want to talk about a man who made his life and his business a support of musicians – a certain kind of musicians: musicians with bulky, cumbersome, delicate instruments. Like harps. … also timpani, and big...
Where’s My Cowboy Now?
We went down the driveway to the main road to throw rocks at cars. I remember it as the day of my Grandfather’s funeral. My good buddy Stephen Holmes was visiting. We were about 4 or 5, I guess, and we’d been told to get out of the house. So we went to...
Watermelon Boogie – for National Watermelon Day!!!
How could I have missed it?? It’s National Watermelon Day and I just found out! Mark Twain said “Once you’ve tasted watermelon, you know what the angels eat.” (OK, maybe he said, “When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels...
Headless Venus
She was my 5th or 6th grade project for history and social studies. I waited ‘til the night before the project was due. Not avoiding it – just obsessing over it. We were studying ancient Greece and Rome. Finally I took my mother’s Venus, the eight-inch statue...
Pluckin’ Beethoven
In the category of ‘You did WHAT????” I right? Well, it all started when I went out for a run. Actually, it all started decades ago when I was a very little girl, listening to my mother play Beethoven’s “Für Elise” – the only piece...
