I’m a pretty private person. I always have been. I used to think I ought to be more outgoing. I remember being nine, and it was the day before I started third grade. I practiced saying the things I imagined outgoing and social people would say. “Hey, how’s it going?” “Groovy.” “Cool.” But then I […]

I did a series of paintings this week that, while doing them, felt like they were expressions of connection. Not just between people, but people and their things and environment and activities.       For me, connection is one of the most fascinating feelings there is. I think it’s the one feeling we essentially […]

Since I was a kid, I’ve been really curious about death. I never saw a dead person when I was a kid — no relative died near me. But I saw horror movies. When Frankenstein threw someone off a windmill, or Dracula was killed with a stake in his heart — I saw sensationalized death. […]

It can be hard to consider ourselves first. It can take a lot of courage. I had a recent client who was scared to investigate the things she had stored for years in her basement. I said as long as that stuff wasn’t being looked at and questioned, she was making it more valuable than […]