A good subheading for this post would be Fear and Creation in the Time of COVID.  My apologies to the brilliant author Gabriel García Márquez. 

When I make myself a promise, I want to keep it. It became very clear to me that I needed a nudge to write and make art everyday. One trick that helps is to tell others what I am going to do. Yikes! Now what? Nothing to do but do what I said I would. This is a game I play with myself to be sure of what I really want to be doing with my life.

Is it odd that I created this website during the pandemic? Do I share the global anxiety and dread of death and destruction at every turn? Am I way out of my comfort zone being so public with my thoughts? Well of course. So I started with a small daily practice you can read about it here. One little matchbook journal at a time. It is a month of work in a very small box.

It occurred to me that I may be a bit north of middle age. (I can actually hear my sister rolling her eyes.) A writer writes and an artist makes art and even in this very weirdest of times – locked down and unemployed – I could do both. So I did the biggest trick of them all and it is this website.

“There are years that ask the question and years that answer.”   Zora Neal Hurston