When the Festival of Arts wrapped its 90th season in September, I closed up my studio and headed to Italy for a much-dreamed of creative retreat.  With an ancient town called Recanati - fittingly referred to as The City of Poetry - as my home base, I studied Italian language and culture at the wonderful Scuola Dante Alighieri, and along with students of all ages...

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The vastness of this ginormous gem show is as inspiring as the rarest of the tiny gems on display. Somewhere in the middle, I find myself in my chosen field.

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Living in Laguna Beach, I get to experience the changing nature of the Pacific Ocean on a daily basis. Some days I walk down to my usual access point, and there’s no beach. The water comes all the way up to the stairs. Other times, like the during the recent ‘king tides’ the water goes out far and takes the sand with it, revealing a...

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