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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At the end of April — early May I got an opportunity to visit a friend of mine that I’ve known since college. We met in Louisiana and both ended up finding home on the West Coast. She’s been living in the Bay Area while I’ve shuttled between Seattle and Los Angeles....
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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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Getting a glimpse at what goes on outside of the studio is often more revealing than what you see when an artist stands in front of the canvas. Inspiration collected in the forms of experiences, emotions, color palettes, landscapes, patterns, and even scents from a...
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