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On Cooking
A recipe has no soul. You as the cook must bring soul to the recipe. – Thomas Keller The kitchen, for me, is the center of the home. It is a sacred space, a place of ritual, intention, and celebration, a place where poetry is made. And cooking isn’t just about nourishment. It’s about comforting…
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Cosmic Summer
Cosmic Swim, paper collage, 2025 I don’t like naming my collages. That’s one of the reasons I typically choose simple descriptive titles. I don’t like analyzing my work, and I don’t like forcing it to mean something. I like to create fun (and sometimes funny) fantasy worlds that I would like to inhabit–or that I…
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Lessons From the Great Mother
Artwork by PattahSee2019 To date, all of my discussions of the total goddess or mother goddess or Great Mother—all terms point to the same entity—have centered on the ways in which women can better relate to her, as a psychological construct, by rewriting the feminine archetypes. This is a process I call self-fashioning, and it…
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Sea View & Other Art
Sea View, paper collage, 2025 I recently scooped up a vintage book of undersea photographs at a local antique shop. The backdrop of Sea View is my favorite image in that book. In fact, it’s actually a two-page spread. In the image above, I edited the final scanned collage to remove the center seam where…
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On Reading
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. – C. S. Lewis There are few activities I enjoy more than curling up with a good book. I’m always reading something—or, perhaps I should say, there’s always a book in my life—even if I only get…
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On the Miraculous in Everyday Life
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. – Anaïs Nin Unless you learn to face your own shadows, you will continue to see them in others, because the world outside of you is only a reflection of the world inside of you. – C. G. Jung A thought for…
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That Which Is Lost
Ernest Howard Shepard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons when the madness knocks at your door, my child, never forget that your ancestors are butterfliesand the trees are your friends I hate the ending of The House at Pooh Corner. I fall apart when Christopher Robin says goodbye to his friends in the enchanted forest because…
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On Curiosity
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. – Albert…
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Movin’ On & Other Art
Movin’ On (no. 1 of 4), paper collage, 2025 When I first started collaging, I used to finish compositions very quickly. If I found a few pieces that worked reasonably well together, they got the glue. The reason for that, I think, was lack of practice. I found two pieces that actually go together? Score!…
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Self-Fashioning: A How-To Guide
Several of the self-fashioning narratives I’ve written over the past few months have been in response to life events. Nothing major—just some challenges and challenging emotions that needed to be dealt with as a result. Indeed, for me, these narratives have become more than just a method of relating to the feminine archetypes: they’ve become…
The Used Life 