“Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion, when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and… [Read More]
Death on a two-lane road
Driving to the Y this morning, I made my usual stop at the end of Geiser Road before turning left onto Route 43. All clear, I thought. I glanced again – an enormous truck was barreling down the hill, hauling two trailers piled with gigantic logs. If I’d made that turn, I’d have been history. I was… [Read More]
Art work in progress – my online persona
Last night I got a message on Facebook: “Are you the Julie Lomoe with an MFA from Columbia? If so, I own one of your paintings, and I adore it.” I didn’t recognize her name, but that doesn’t mean I never met her. I was active in the SoHo art scene in the late Sixties… [Read More]
Preview: Panic in the McDonald’s Play Tower
Too tired to blog tonight after a long day of grandmothering in Woodstock. What on earth will tomorrow’s blog be about? The clue lies in the previous sentence. Readers in the Blog-A-Day challenge will understand – I haven’t missed a day since May lst, and I’m not about to fall by the wayside now. No… [Read More]
Learning curve vs. linear left-brain tradition
I’ve been mulling over my live WordPress lesson with Alexis Grant at Panera yesterday. Alexis is five years younger than my daughter, and she whizzed effortlessly around her laptop, demonstrating all kinds of features I’d been clueless about and even teaching me some html language. I asked her if she’d ever formally studied this stuff, and… [Read More]
A writer, yes, but professional or amateur?
Thanks to those of you who commented on my blog about gardening with my granddaughters. I consider myself blessed in having such a wonderful family, albeit a small one, and the leisure to pretty much follow my whims day to day. Today’s been another day of diversion, and tonight’s shaping up to be the same…. [Read More]