Being an only child, I never had the privilege – and frustration – of having a sister with whom I grew up. I used to think this was an advantage: nobody in close enough proximity to wear my clothes, take my stuff, flirt with my boyfriend, or publicly embarrass me. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Invasion from Inner Space
On the scale of fact versus fiction, where do you tend to linger? Before you automatically jump to the superiority of scientific based thought (Oh and I’m with you on that), consider that it also takes a leap of imagination to invent, to discover, to progress at all. The great milestones of change occurred because somebody was able to transform What Is to What Could Be. Continue reading
Dirty Back Roads
Even though these pseudo stories are primarily inspired by my mother’s drawings, this one is unabashedly about me. But not just about me; it is about you too. Really, it is about all of us, where we come from, how we respond to events, and how we got to this point. Continue reading
The Cactus is Always Greener
Elizabeth and her sister Suzanne used to take some crazy cross-country road trips. They took one particular adventure specifically for the purpose of gathering photos from which Elizabeth could recreate the scenery in her favorite pen-and-ink format. They traveled to the East Coast and back, had some fun and took tons of pictures. On the final trek they took a detour in the desert to go to Las Vegas before heading home. Continue reading