I used to take small children to the museums in DC. On one occasion we visited an exhibit of Matisse. I thought of this when I was browsing through past blog entries of The Shy Museumgoer and came across her entry on Matisse from 2022. https://theshymuseumgoer.com/2022/11/06/matisse-paints-joy-and-simple-pleasures/ She gives a lovely description of why he painted [...]
Today at 5:20 a.m. two little boys arrived at my bedside to tell me that the third one was crying for his mom. I've been cruising at warp speed ever since. So no real posting today though I will say that child number three was willing to be comforted. My novel is really and truly [...]
My mother put herself through college in the late 1930's. She started at the University of Wisconsin, took some classes in Chicago while working there for Barnhardt, the dictionary people, and then finished through the University of Wisconsin extension. She used to talk about going to the Art Institute, and I had no idea what [...]
Today is the Feast of Saint Ignatius of Antioch. I went looking for images that included him and found a picture of Saint Ignatius Loyola first, because I had been careless in my prompt. Here it is. https://www.nortonsimon.org/art/viewer/M.1975.03.P On the Norton Simon website it's not listed in the public domain, but it is very beautiful [...]
My new book will be out in less than a month… I hope. It’s difficult to stay on track but I’ve done a monster edit over the last six months. Like this drawing, my story was missing some legs. Miss May Belfort Drawing by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec National Gallery of Art, DC public domain Separately, [...]
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