I'm trying to merge my two blogs, so I'm going to try posting personal entries on the art blog from now on. You can find them in the "Personal" category there. Let me know what you think!

I was all set to make a drawing for my first Monday Art Day on my revamped art blog, but we just spent four hours going to and from the vet hospital and waiting for Tisha's bandages to be changed, and now I'm can't concentrate. While we were in Concord the oncologist caught us and told us the biopsy results came back, and Tisha has squamous cell ( Read more... )

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Yesterday I had lunch with my friend Patrick, in Berkeley, where we got our undergrad degrees at the same time (in the same department) without knowing each other. I hadn't seen him for probably a year. He gets more handsome every time we meet! We had an enjoyable Japanese bento lunch and walked back up to campus together. I got to see his cubicle ( Read more... )

I went to a dear friend's wedding this weekend, spending three days in the company of all our mutual friends: Jennifer's family, our high school group and their partners I've come to know, the lovely women I met at her bachelorette getaway and bridal shower. It was a sweet and beautiful wedding.

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Tisha is crouched on my computer desk, purring with that gulping little hitch his purr now has because of the growth on his neck. He's so normal except for this... but this is no small thing. He doesn't eat as much (the mass probably makes it less comfortable to chew or swallow), his left eye is a little skewed (the mass presses on a nerve there), ( Read more... )

I'm craving cool ice cream melting over warm pie. I need to bake another one soon, while summer fruit is still in the markets. This one was from yesterday. Crust recipe here.


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I've been on my Writing Diet for just over three weeks now. I'm learning a lot, and I feel certain these lessons will stand me in good stead for the rest of my life. It's rather astonishing how much better I feel these days. I went into the diet with only a few ground rules: (1) Try to eat enough protein, instead of so many carbs, (2) Try to ( Read more... )

Last night I was writing to my Body Buddy, Sabrina, about recent struggles to eat healthily when I'm out all day. No, not healthily -- mindfully, which is slightly different, and much harder to do when I'm SHUT (stressed/hungry/unsure/tired, my take on the traditional HALT: hungry/angry/lonely/tired). I realized that I seek out food, and comfort ( Read more... )