My daughter’s recent paintings reflect her desire to travel the world again, and I know my heart must bend. Not break, mind you, but bend to the will of my precious girl who lights up the room with a smile. I must bend to her passion to travel and teach English abroad, again.
Bend to her [...]
Soft and feminine yet brazen and bold; Hardly descriptors seeming to go together, except when you’re making a vintage, mixed media masquerade mask.
I’d envisioned a vintage mask for weeks. In fact, the concept captivated me because I love all things vintage—aged colors of yellow ochre and burnt sienna with a splash of aqua green; ink [...]
Today I celebrate an artist’s recent success. An artist I’ve had the privilege of watching emerge since she was just a wee thing, my daughter Elya Filler.
Elya began creating as far back as I can remember. She would escape into her room and get lost in making tiny books and writing stories about horses. She [...]
What is your passion? What is your dream?
When I was a little girl, I wanted to save the world. I didn’t know what that even meant at the time, but somehow I knew that it was my purpose in life. As I grew older, my dreams became a bit more specific. In high school, I [...]
We live in an unprecedented age that requires mult-tasking in order to keep up. As the speed at which we function increases, the fallout is a loss of time spent in contemplation. Serenity evaporates like water droplets splashed on sunbaked pavement. We are a generation who over plans and overdoes. As we do, our imaginations [...]
