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,...

I knew this journey that I started after being laid off would be full of ups and downs. Mostly downs, but the ups have come in the form...

Today, grandma surprised Natalia with tickets to go see Hamilton. To keep the surprise going, Mike and I pretended that we were taking...

It can get very demoralizing seeing job applications getting rejected. To make myself feel better, I decided to make a simple and homey...

Today’s post is all about graphite portrait practice. I have set myself a goal of doing a self portrait each year to see how I improve...

Ahhhhhh. I can breathe a sigh of relief for at least a year now. I just had my screening mammogram today, and the results came back...

I had been trying to wean myself off of my awful Twitter habit. But, I’ll succumb to the siren call of doom scrolling every now and then...

I’ve decided to volunteer more in my community as a way to keep myself busy during “the deciding times”. I had written that as “the dark...

It’s been a little more than a week since I was laid off. I had been with my company for 17 years. Time during which I got married, had...

Woohoo! I’m actually finished with Inktober for 2021. Every year, I feel paralysis when I start, and I always think that there is no...

The moon the other night was so orange that it almost looked like a sunset. The Hunter's Moon -- the first full moon after the Harvest...

As my intro page notes, I'm late to bringing art into my life, although I'm glad that I did, no matter how old I am. I've also been...