In Mill Valley, on our sunny side of town, September is tomato time. Those tiny seedlings we planted in the corners of our veggie beds back in May have transformed themselves into a tangled, tentacled jungle of photosynthesizing leaves and stalks. The greenery produced delicate yellow blossoms that grew, as if touched by a sprinkling of fairy dust, into a rainbow of marble-to-baseball-sized red, orange, and yellow fruit. Horticulturists near and far will blanch as I mention the magic behind […]

Summer is here, and with my kids out of school and in-and-out of camp, I’ve decided – okay, accepted – that there won’t be much, if any, studio time in my near future. I’m mostly at peace with that, and instead I’m hoping to channel some creative energies into this here blog. Somehow that seems more manageable: I can sit on my bed in my pjs and pound away on the keys for 20 minutes while my boys run in […]

I don’t do blue. I’ve never bought a piece of clothing that’s blue, never worn jewelry that’s blue, never painted a room blue. In my lifetime, I’ve had a rainbow of favorite colors: Pink when I was a little girl; green as a wanna’ be hippie my freshman year in college; purple and black as a committed radical later on. Currently, my number one shade is red – Pyrrole, to be exact. But blue? It’s just never been my hue. […]