ET. CETERA

  • Et Cetera: The Catch-all Category for Everything Else
    Sometime back, we […]
  • A Couple More Birds and Some Pottery, too.
    Recent bird paintings and sea life pottery by Rose Guastella […]
  • Dartmouth returns to requiring standardized testing
    Some poorer minority students who hadn’t submitted test scores and were rejected would have been admitted had they submitted their scores. […]
  • Two More Birds
    Here are portraits of two more birds- a Steller's Jay and a Cedar Waxwing. […]
  • My Chef Boyardee Experience: A Cautionary Tale
    A culinary accident occurred in my kitchen today that proves we do not have free will […]
  • A Gaggle of New Bird Paintings
    New bird paintings created since fall 2023 […]
  • Ron Powell: Piano Man
    Ron Powell is missing in action. We haven't heard from him in a while and we're woried. The embedded article shows a side of Ron I personally never knew about before. (Click the link in the story.) […]
  • Self-prescribed Art Therapy
    Making art is the best stress-reliever I know of. This new painting has been a very fulfilling experience. […]
  • Catching up…
    Just a little update since I haven't been here in a while. […]
  • The Wreck of the Peter Iredale
    My newest painting is a view of the shipwreck of the Peter Iredale, lost on the Oregon Coast in 1906. […]
  • Back at the Easel Again
    Here are two new paintings and a bit of commentary about my creative process. […]
  • April is Poetry Month
    Ars Poetica brings writers and visual artists together. April is poetry month! This is a description of my experiences with Ars Poetica at the Collective Visions Gallery in Bremerton, Washington. […]
  • Octopus BowlCrazy for Octopi, That’s Me
    I've spent the last couple of months making pottery with an octopus motif. […]
  • Is it Spring yet? No…but I can still paint it.
    A painter's signs of spring on the Puget Sound. It seems slow in coming this year. […]
  • Time to Breathe and a New Painting
    I have time to paint again! Here's my latest. […]
  • The Stars From Our Youth
    A poem upon hearing that David Crosby had set sail for his final destination […]
  • I’m Still Here!
    I haven't been here much but will be back again soon. […]
  • Cold Hands
    I said my hands are cold... […]
  • Not Just Paint
    How I came to be a potter as well as a painter. […]
  • The Yellow Teapot
    This is the story behind my painting of a yellow teapot sitting on lacework made by my grandmother. […]
  • Poem: Delusions and Eidolons
    They laid claims to their versions of reality while ignoring our claims to the same […]
  • Poem: Iliads and Odysseys
    Iliads and Odysseys, Odysseys  and Iliads, they come and go, they came and went, heroes and villains remembered together […]
  • Some Thoughts on What it’s Like for Me These Days as an Artist
    Just me, musing on what it's like to be a working artist who doesn't have to support herself with her art. […]
  • A Passing
    Musings on the passing of my mother. […]
  • Precarious
    A still life arrangement at the Georgia O'Keeffe studio/museum in Abiquiu, New Mexico, provided the inspiration for this painting. […]
  • Third Abiquiu Painting
    Features of many adobe structures in new Mexico include the warm orange tones and soft edges of the adobe, contrasted with the sharp turquoise blues of windows and doors. […]
  • Flower Portraits
    About some of my flower portraits, all painted since the start of COVID. […]
  • Daytime Moon at Abiquiu
    The daytime moon was visible in Abiquiu while I was there visiting Georgia O'Keefe's home. […]
  • Georgia’s Ladder
    A new painting, and a short description of the events surrounding it. […]
  • All That Quiet
    Still painting and sometimes even still writing about it. Here's the latest one. […]
  • Bang, Bang
    You're going on about your business doing ordinary things on an ordinary day when, all of a sudden, bang, bang, bang, bang, your existence is shattered by gunfire. […]
  • Musicians I found on YouTube during COVID
    Like everyone else, presumably, I spent a lot of time on YouTube during COVID. I ran across a few musicians whom I thought were worth learning about. […]
  • “All We Know Is That We Don’t Know…”
    I like listening to him, and he’s even more interesting to watch while singing, and at the same time, he makes me want to punch his face flat. […]
  • IF GOD WERE
    A jocular poem about an unjocular subject. […]
  • THE FINAL OUT
    As you get older life is like always being up at bat when it's two out in the bottom of the ninth, the score is two-to-one against you […]
  • Spoiled by music in college
    Getting older, actually […]
  • Consumer Advisory
    This is the first of more than 980 poems that I plan to post here. Gotta do something to make this site worthwhile. […]
  • Red Velvet and Other New Works
    New paintings for 2021 include landscapes, more flowers and some new materials. […]
  • Which posts would you save?
    When you look at your posts, which ones would you want to save and why? I guess this is sort of an open call. […]
  • A question, using the Rice Krispies jingle
    Snat Crackle Tot […]
  • The Silence is Deafening
    Well, it has gotten very quiet around here for the past few days. I find myself starting new articles, getting a couple of pages into them, and then grinding to s stop thwarted by a feeling of utter futility triggered by the perception that nothing I say, write, or do is going to make any difference […]
  • Jonah’s Yorzeit, that time of year again
    There are people here who were very supportive and I want to thank you. Oddly, that’s most of the people here. Not everyone here knew me at the time. […]
  • Studio backdrop for Laura’s broadcast today
    Very teetery. May collapse mid-broadcast. […]
  • I have creative kids – Jennifer’s Xmas dinner
    Edible art […]
  • Laura’s New Year’s Cards
    Look forward, not backward […]
  • A photo for Christmas Eve
    I like the mood. […]
  • Something Different (and not a flower)
    A visit to Fort Worden/Point Wilson in Port Townsend in late 2018 resulted in a series of works. […]
  • Pink is Not My Favorite Color
    I am usually not a huge fan of painting with pink.  It is challenging to get it to look the way a flower looks, delicate and natural. The danger is always that it pink can be insipid or look like stomach medicine.  […]
  • Good morning
    However, it lacks a certain.........perspective. […]
  • I think I’m there, now.
    Another flower, and some info about posting... […]
  • With help, I’m making blogging progress
    Hello Old Friends, I've missed you! Insta and FB are poor substitutes for the kind of communication a good blog can do. It's been a long time since I made a blog post. I hope this means I'm back with you.  […]
  • For Algis Thomas Kemezys
    I've known Algis Thomas Kemezys for so long that I can't remember when we first encountered each other on Open Salon. He's an award-winning photographer, artist, and filmmaker. I've written several poems about his photography and artwork over the years, He's going through hard times right now....this poem is intended to bring him good cheer from an old friend. […]
  • A new old photograph
    The [photograph] above came into my mother’s possession (electronically) a few days ago. She’d never seen it. I think she was told it was taken in 1910 in Jamaica Bay, Queens. I think it may be a bit more recent, like maybe 1912. In any case, certainly over a century old.  I knew three people in the photograph.  […]
  • BindleSnitch Membership Update
    Requesting input about changes we're thinking about making to the website. […]
  • T’kiah
    the shofar didn’t originally exist for the High Holy Days. It existed as a sort of ancient siren, a call to action, often with military applications […]
  • Practice Makes Perfect
    Practice & Rehearsal […]
  • Book challenge, #4.1
    Limits or no, I can't leave this one out. It's the best book I've ever read and I'm not good choosing favorites. I'm not even done with it, I just keep reading and reading and reading. […]
  • Book challenge, #4
    I'm not sure how to categorize this one, fantasy, futuristic, maybe dystopian? Mostly a beautiful and meaningful novel. […]
  • Are we still doing this? #3
    It's not a great book but it taught me a lot. […]
  • Wolfman’s book challenge, my #2
    The dog book that had possibly the greatest influence on my understanding of and relationships with them, written by a brilliant writer/philosopher who's been rejected by the dog training establishment. […]
  • Wolfman’s book challenge, my #1
    It's the old, ugly story of racism and cruelty we all know too well, with a different story and an amazing, surprise ending. It's Whitehead's newest and the book I read most recently. (And I don't know why I can't control the size of the featured image.) […]
  • One Origin, in Shame, of My LGBT Advocacy
    ...insisted they'd no memory of my shabby behavior. […]
  • How to Join the Video Revolution…or Why Not?
    The written word is […]
  • How to Post Music on BindleSnitch
     Don’t even start […]
  • Driven 2 Abstractions by visionary artist Satya Vani
    Satya Vani holds […]
  • The Process
    I put my mind in neutral turning off the slide projector in my head, […]
  • Publishing Fiction on BindleSnitch
    If know anything about […]
  • About Deer Crossings and Hurricane Seasons
    "How do the hurricanes know when to start and stop forming? Do they watch Hurricane Central?" Of course not. This is really a matter of nomenclature rather than the conscious intent of the hurricanes. It turns out that, if a storm develops before May 1st or after November 30th, it almost never gets a name. […]
  • Drunk While Flying: Minnesota’s Avian Alcoholics
    There's an epidemic of drunkenness among the younger residents roosting in the small northeastern Minnesota town of Gilbert. where the town's avian residents are dive bombing the human residents of the town, flying around in circles, flying into windows and cars, scaring residents... […]
  • Consumers Conned by Restaurant Rankings: True or False?
    Consumers are increasingly dependent upon second-hand recommendations from total strangers when deciding where to spend our money. Whether we refer to reviews posted online, or studies conducted by people who study market trends, […]
  • The WordPress Professional: Extracting Email Addresses
    I’ve been building websites since the early 1990s. That was long before WordPress appeared in 2003, so I was building websites with HTML, PHP, and a whole bunch of other packages I would rather not remember even if […]
  • Jim Nabors, 87, Led a Charmed - and Charming - LifeJim Nabors, 87, Led a Charmed – and Charming – Life
    Legendary singer and actor Jim Nabors passed away in Hawaii on November 30th, at the age of 87, leaving behind a legacy as a gentle comedic actor with a superb singing voice. See him here, one more time.... […]
  • Tom Petty: Remembering an American OriginalTom Petty: Remembering an American Original
    Tom Petty was an unpretentious American original, a musician of rare talent, a singer blessed with unique voice, a story teller whose songs summarized four decades of the American experience... […]
  • Non-profit Groups Help Ex-convicts Start Their Own BusinessesNon-Profit Groups Help Ex-Convicts Start Their Own Businesses
    Calvin Duncan knows a […]
  • Police Stops: What Would You Do In This Situation?Police Stops: What Would You Do In This Situation?
    Saturday afternoon, July […]
  • Milwaukee Air Show Thunders Across Wisconsin Skies
    The Sound of Friendly […]
  • April Fools’ Day Isn’t Over Yet…
    …but there’s […]
  • What the Frack Does Meme Mean?
    Writers are always […]

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