Not exactly books, but I keep files and files and files of collections like tiles, architects, rooms I like, lighting, garden, equipment, textiles for the fantasy home I’ll likely never get to build. I just had an epiphany. My mother had a room in our house with a big old typewriter surrounded by files and […]
DAVID LETTERMAN AND MOM Mom and I stood across the street from Trump Tower, two years after it was built wondering who was at the center of the crowd of people out front that included an NBC film crew. Seeing the interior of Trump Tower was on our visitors list, anyway. Later I learned that […]
For about 30 years I wrote super short illustrated stories and filed them away. I’d never shown them to anyone except my ex-husband. I had never had a psychic reading either. I was living in North Carolina and made an appointment for a phone consultation with Sonia Choquette who lived in Chicago. When she told […]
I can’t believe I just started drawing in ink in this beautiful book. Nowadays I would first draw it to death before ever putting ink to paper. Cartoonist Lynda Barry has her students use a Staedtler Non-Photo Blue Pencil so they can sketch away until they find the right lines, then ink those. When the drawing […]
The first page of my LOVE BOOK is dated December 23, 1987. Pen and ink cartoons.
books of a delicate balance
Cooking is more like a vapor than a set of instructions
As a kid, I mailed off pictures of jets with thrilling advertising copy like FLY SAFE, FLY DELTA, fully expecting to see them in Life Magazine. So it was words and pictures from an early age. Visual arts kept me going all my life with words sneaking in as mere accents but sometimes the words […]
In 1956, the days of truly live television, a big TV hit called Queen For A Day had three women pour out their tragic life stories and compete for the answer to their prayers, a queenly red velvet robe, a seat on a throne, a bunch of long stemmed roses, –not to mention a glittering crown. Usually they would […]
When Alison asked me to curate Nola Studiola for September I was flattered and very intimidated by the previous wonderful posts. I did what writers do and sat down for many days, and threw up all over the page with whatever words and thoughts arose. Eventually some themes emerged: books, words and pictures, what my […]
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