Create-Features

The newspaper feature series I author and illustrate, focuses on home, clutter, organization, creativity, family, friends, relationships. The material springboards from create the space you deserve, in a conversational style that’s thoughtful, cozy, provocative, edgy, unexpected, playful for sure.
Stories get told from around the campfire, while pulling weeds or from the
porch with the girls. For the whole story, click on image and be patient.

2.28.08
Guest Nest
I did what I often suggest to others: 'sleep in your own guest
quarters a few nights so you can see how it functions. Get a taste of what you're offering to your sleep-over invites.'

10.26.07
When enough is enough
'Real estate is a good financial investment, until it might not be. When does home become home again and not just all about
the money?'

12.28.07
Writer Explores (our Personal) Assets in the New Year
'There are zillions of people who have given up doing what they
were 'suppose' to do in order to do what they love to do. Were they afraid? Probably, but so what?'

12.07.07
Winter Camp by the Living Room Fire
Author celebrates Christmas, books and ‘gratitude’.
‘Tis the season, ‘tis always the season. And, what am I grateful for?

9.24.07
Healing Garden
Healing Sanctuary and the healing properties of gardening
“this butterfly cottage continues to serve as a place to heal, a place from which to review the past and to begin to imagine a new future. The renovation and transformation became a major focus. It required asking over and over and over again: Who am I?’

6.22.07
Roses and the Perfect Shade
As a collage artist, I see the yard as a playground for whatever makes me happy. With found junk, I create vignettes that sprout in surprising corners.