At the Broken Places

We’ve been traveling while the house is being renovated. We’re back in Albuquerque now, but just for a bit and then we’re on to Santa Fe, one of the world’s most wonderful cities. Meanwhile the house continues to be renovated. It’s been a challenge to do artwork on the road without my lovely big monitor…

Crestone, Colorado: Shangri-La of the Rockies

Some things feel serendipitous. While our house is being renovated, we had to find a place to stay that would allow us to write comfortably because we have deadlines. We decided that a Airbnb would be the right choice. We drew a little radius on the map to choose a place about halfway between Albuquerque…

Renovation: The Demolition

Our designer believes that some houses call out for the people who can bring them to health and beauty and that our house has called to us.

Short Update

They started tearing out carpeting, flooring, a weird internal terracotta roof. We’ve taken quick peeks from our security system cameras. Since they are taking out walls soon and jackhammering floors, we cannot remain. So we’ve taken an airbnb in Southern Colorado with weird acoustics. Tomorrow I begin writing a story that will hopefully work for…

Class Review: Mystery Caper Workshop with Kristine Kathryn Rusch

As I write this I can hear fireworks outside. I hope you find them stirring and inspiring and that they will inspire us to work toward an expansion of freedom. Update on Works in Progress I’m nearly finished with the graphics for Amelia’s Friends, a tropical adventure set in an island Paradise. Or is it…

Renovation Update

We have been preoccupied with setting up the house for the renovation. Basically half the house will undergo a very serious change in the next three weeks. By the time it is done we will have a covered porch, a meditation room, an office for Steve, and a laundry room (all new). The Gathering Room…

Enneagram Subtypes and Characters

One fascinating part of the Enneagram are the “subtypes.” I’ve heard subtypes described as the part of Maslow’s Hierarchy that we are most concerned meeting. (And the numbers are our strategies for meeting them.) There are three subtypes, or instinctual variations: Self-Preservation (Preservers), Sexual (Transmitters), and Social (Navigators). Self-Preservation-focused people are primarily concerned with the…

Options Block

My designer asked me yesterday whether I’d made a decision on what elements I wanted in something we’re ordering for the house. I hung my head and confessed that I have “Shopping Block” brought on by difficulty writing. His assistant smiled and said she understands perfectly. She’s a writer as well. There is a point…