Indy East and more

Now is a good time to recap the Maine ski area trip. Skiing and painting Indy Pass Western Maine was a delightfully weird, wholesome and gorgeous experience.

What's the secret recipe for "Happy Artist"? And what does it have to do with books and poems? Here's the long and short of it... Where Happy Ends: "Niche down, Niche down"  Did you know, artists are not robots? Of course you do. We all know this and yet sometimes we get pulled into what we think we should be doing.  Yours truly has examined the sources in our culture of that "should," and quite frankly I refuse to try and program me. Artists are human beings and as such not machines created for one specific output.  What I have decided....Don't...

"I can't believe you forgot this" I'm going to tell you why a visit for skiing and painting at Snow Ridge, this treasure nestled in Northern, NY, was so damn refreshing. "I can't believe you forgot this"...cringing to myself. Leading up to this visit, I had hoped to time it with a proper lake effect dumping of a couple feet...the storms of my childhood in Watertown. This became the single-sided story I told myself about Snow Ridge: the place that gets pummeled by pow.  When accumulation did not happen for my visit, I was honestly disappointed. Rain had assaulted the...