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Family road trips always sound way more fun than they actually are. We had flown out to Las Vegas from Boston to spend the long weekend...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 18, 20232 min read
Vegas, baby
There are days where my goal of doing art every day is so much harder than other days. After 6 hours of plane travel (having gotten up at...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 17, 20232 min read
Anxious flying
There are two kinds of people when it comes to airports. Normal people who want to get to the airport at least 3 hours early and the...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 16, 20232 min read
Story submission
Today I hit send on a short story submission for the No Sleep podcast. This is in my regular rotation of podcasts that I listen to when I...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 15, 20232 min read
Short stories to remember
Now that I have some extra free time, I’m getting back into art and into my writing. I’ve been working on a short story that incorporates...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 14, 20232 min read
Happy Valentine's Day!
I’ve known my husband for more than 20 years and have been married to him for nearly 18 of those years. I know that Valentine’s Day is...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 13, 20232 min read
The underpainting
For some reason I was feeling incredibly anxious today. I’m sure, if I spent any time thinking deeply about my situation (the drudgery of...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 12, 20232 min read
Have a superb owl!
Everyone and their mother is watching the Super Bowl tonight, at least it seems that way to me anyway. Me? I’m searching how to find the...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 11, 20233 min read
Meditation on a mood: Harvester Games retrospective
Now that I’ve finished reviewing Burnhouse Lane, a new game from Harvester Games and indie game developer, Rem Michalski, I realize that...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 10, 20232 min read
Final sketchbook page
I thought it would take me forever to finish my first painting sketchbook. Well, it didn’t take me forever, but it did take a little more...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 9, 20233 min read
Social media diet
Ever since my layoff, I have been spending a lot of time on LinkedIn. In the past, I had really ignored this social media outlet, instead...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 8, 20231 min read
Tears of the Kingdom
When Zelda: Breath of the Wild first came out in 2017, all I did was play that game day in and day out. In my opinion, it was not only...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 7, 20232 min read
Fixing your mistakes
During my art journey, I always had a fear of watercolors. It was the medium where I was the most afraid of making mistakes. With...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 6, 20232 min read
Stolen art
I’ve been really hesitant to write about AI and art. I have very strong feelings about this technology, and I realize that this probably...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 5, 20232 min read
The daily grind
I'm not talking about work, of course, but about daily blogging. Yes, yes, everyone thinks it’s easy to write a daily blog post, and, of...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 4, 20232 min read
Cold, dark winter days
Winter has become very strange here in New England in this time of climate change. Today started to get into the balmy teens, hovering...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 3, 20231 min read
Hot dishes on a cold night
One of our weaknesses is a love of fancy dinners. Today, even though it was -3 degrees (with wind chills well into the double digits, we...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 2, 20231 min read
If I won the lottery
It’s fun to daydream about what you’d do if you won the lottery. First thoughts probably go to traveling the world, maybe buying a...
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LaCalaveraCat
Feb 1, 20231 min read
Playing around with vectors
One of the things that I really enjoyed about my job was creating art every day in Illustrator. Now that I’m on my own, I can experiment...
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LaCalaveraCat
Jan 31, 20231 min read
Comfort gaming
Is there a book, movie, or game that you go to again and again when you’re in need of some comfort? For me, that game is Stardew Valley,...
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