This is not a Paris Vacation Guide. It’s a peek into what I notice and how I see. It’s been three months since we visited Paris. I keep hoping that I’ll come up with some clever organized way to share everything about my trip, but I’m tired of thinking about it and I...
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Collaborations stretch my creativity in such great, unexpected ways. When Cassandra and I first discussed the 2024 Monochromatic Collection for Casa di LaValle I was a bit apprehensive. While the style referenced some of my earlier geometric abstract cityscape work, I...
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We visited Puerto Vallarta in February 2024 to escape the Pacific Northwest winter rain for a few days and to do our in-person interview for the Global Entry travel program. We’re hoping for more international travel in our future — France is happening in April! — so...
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Alive With Beginning I’m obsessed with the plant life in Southern California. I even unintentionally had a bedroom with a palm tree beach mural when I was in high school. It wasn’t Southern California, probably French Polynesia or another island paradise. But I’ve...
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Earlier this year I had an epiphany, or an “aha moment” as our friend Oprah might say. I realized that I had been holding myself back from things that I want. Like, without even KNOWING it. I’d become so used to my daily routines that I trapped myself in them, in a...
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