A few weeks ago, I ordered and received a watercolor kit from Mossery. It was a little pricey but I’ve been wanting to learn and create watercolors and this was a complete kit that would help me to learn and it felt worth it to order. Thankfully, it has been. Many evenings since receiving theContinue reading “On Painting”
Author Archives: Rhena
Book Recommendation: Girl Gone Missing by Marcie R. Rendon
One of the things that makes Cash Blackbear such a great literary character is the way in which she is not only fully realized but that she is a relatively isolated. Readers are invited in to be a part of a life that (in direct contrast to how so many lives these days are livedContinue reading “Book Recommendation: Girl Gone Missing by Marcie R. Rendon”
This morning, I sewed new masks for two of my kids (the two older ones who will actually agree to wearing masks, the youngest, the three year old does not care to wear a mask so we don’t take him places where he might need to be indoors) and myself. I’ve only made myself oneContinue reading
On Writing This Blog Post
A few weeks ago, I set a goal for myself: write (and publish) at least five hundred words on this blog five evenings a week before I go to sleep for four weeks. So far, I’ve been following through on this goal. The pay-off has slowly become noticeable. The first few days, I would jotContinue reading “On Writing This Blog Post”
On cutting hair
Most days, lately, I have to remind myself that we are still in a pandemic. I’ll be moving through daily tasks and suddenly feel incredibly exhausted and I’ll wonder for a moment or two whether there’s something truly physically wrong with me. “Oh no,” I’ll think to myself, “remember? We are in a pandemic. TheseContinue reading “On cutting hair”
On the slow life
Life is asking me to slow down which is a little odd as I feel as though I’ve been moving through peanut butter for the past year or so. Everything seems to take so much damn effort. Still the signs are clear and present. The first one isn’t the heat, it’s the humidity, the airContinue reading “On the slow life”
On New Habits
Tonight I made pita bread for dinner. It’s a process that I have down, more or less, by rote, or at least well enough that it’s the sort of thing that I have, most of the time, done with something else playing in the background: the radio, an audiobook piped in through my earbuds, evenContinue reading “On New Habits”
On (not) scrolling
A few weeks ago, I started to periodically feel a sharp pain in my right elbow. It was particularly painful — to the point that I could not help but inhale a sharp breath — when I was doing push ups. (Ok, not real push-ups, which I cannot do, yet, but any exercise that wasContinue reading “On (not) scrolling”
On Habits
This morning, during the time I was waiting for the butter to melt on the cast iron pan before I poured the Dutch Baby batter, I had a vague, brief thought: what can or should I be doing right now? Mind you, butter does not take very long to melt, especially in a 425 degreeContinue reading “On Habits”
On Drawing
Some time last fall (of 2020) I took a short on-line course from Brad Tebow to learn to use Procreate and then this spring, my kids and I rounded up some drawing books and a few other materials and, for a few weeks or so, made it part of our daily routine to sit atContinue reading “On Drawing”
The Wild Goose Land 